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“Embracing a child when they come out as transgender can be a matter of life and death” [vox.com]

 

At age 6, Sarah McBride used building blocks to create a make-believe version of the place she dreamed to visit one day: the White House. McBride’s early dreams came true. She interned at the White House in 2012, during her senior year at American University — where she came out publicly as transgender at the end of her term as student body president. And at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, she made history, becoming the first transgender person to speak at a national convention.

McBride’s new memoir, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality, describes her experience as a trans woman, helping Delaware become the 17th state to protect trans people from discrimination, and her relationship with Andy Cray — a transgender man and activist — who died of cancer at the age of 28, only days after their wedding.

McBride says addressing trans equality is a life-or-death matter. “When I think of families accepting and embracing their transgender children,” she told me, “I remember when a mom of a transgender daughter said: ‘When my child came out, I was faced with a decision — whether I wanted a happy daughter or a dead son.’”

[For more on this story by  Hope Reese, go to https://www.vox.com/conversati...ctivist-military-ban]

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I don't exactly know why, but when my son was very young, I thought someday he might tell me he was gay.  Since he was so young, I had a long time to contemplate this.  Having never had a similar experience, it kind of caught me off guard.  Over time I realized that what I truly hoped for was that he would select a path forward that made him happy.  Even though I was caught off-guard I knew with every fiber of my being - no matter what I would love that kid - to the moon and back!   

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