Judy Sennesh, Board Member &
Founder, TransParents Project
Try to imagine how I felt when my lesbian daughter — “out” since her early teens and accepted and loved by family and friends — came to me at the end of her junior year at college and announced,
“Mom, I was born with the wrong body and need to become a boy.”
Ask any parent with a transgender child and they will tell you that these words, which we’ve all heard in one form or another, send shockwaves through your soul. You pour over the details of your parenting, searching for the thing you did that was “wrong.” You panic, thinking about hormones and surgeries that loom ahead, lining and defining the path of your beloved child’s life for years to come. You lie awake at night, trying to imagine how grandparents could ever embrace, or even comprehend, such strange news. Read more »