![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Those typical hurdles weren’t ‘our story’ – but we still had questions! My Sister, Daisy is what grew out of those questions and I love the message it turned out to be. She also wasn’t told she couldn’t be who she said she was or dress how she wanted to. Our kid didn’t change outwardly in dramatic ways – she had always dressed in clothes from “across the aisles” and played with toys of all types. It became clear, however, that our experience was different than what we saw in books. We already had the books in the house and had discussed gender identity and sexual orientation with our kids since they were able to talk… but our conversation had a new focus. I had friends who were trans, friends whose kids were trans… but I hadn’t ever parented a trans-kid myself! Naturally, we turned to picture books when we talked to our kids about it. We were happy she told us and supportive of her identity, but since she had been assigned male at birth, it was a change and we weren’t entirely sure what, if anything, had changed. Adria Karlsson: This story is loosely based on my own family’s experience when my daughter told us she was a girl a few years back. ![]()
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