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This blog is written by my guest writer Jamie Black. In light of all of the legislation being passed that will hurt transgender kids, I feel the need to come out and speak about the damage this is doing. I am a 56 year old transman.  I came out in my 20’s and began my…

I just saw an exciting article today about a transgender couple who are pregnant. In this case, it’s not the woman who is carrying the child but the man. He is pregnant because he has a uterus. I’m excited for them. This article gives me hope to see a young transgender couple be able to…

I’m writing my blog because of experiences in my earlier days of parenting my transgender child. When she first came out, I felt it was my job to explain who she was as a transgender person. Some people didn’t understand that being transgender is a real thing. It was difficult to seek understanding at the…

Parents of transgender children and hospitals are being targeted for giving appropriate medical care.  When my daughter told me she was a girl, I had a lot of mixed feelings. I wanted to support her but I was also scared.  When she was born, the doctor assumed she was a boy based on her body.…

Gender identity is a person’s deep-seated, felt sense of gender, or how a person feels on the inside, regardless of what their body looks like. Cisgender is when gender identity matches sex assigned at birth. (i.e. A boy grows up to be a man.) This is not a slur. Transgender means when gender identity doesn’t…

Recently, I’ve been thinking that gender reveal parties need to be updated or stopped.  Gender and sex assigned at birth are not the same thing.   Yes, this is my main message in all my posts.  Just because a child is called a girl when she is born (sex assigned at birth) doesn’t mean that that…

Having a transgender child is hard and not because of my child.  It’s all the judgment of others that makes things difficult.  I’ve been having a tough time knowing what to write recently because is hard to have a child who doesn’t agree with her sex assigned at birth.  When my daughter was little, I…

The ACLU sues to block Texas from investigating parents of trans youth.  The ACLU argues that the governor’s instructions were issued without proper authority, in violation of a Texas law and the state constitution, and violate the constitutional rights of transgender youth and their parents. The complaint names Abbott, DFPS Commissioner Jaime Masters and the…

Australia shelves religious discrimination bill after lawmaker’s heartfelt LGBTQ rights appeal “But while the Religious Discrimination Bill’s future is now uncertain, recent events remain triggering for many in the LGBT community,” according to Dr. Clara Tuck Meng Soo, a transgender woman and GP.  ‘The experience of seeing the debate over the merits of the Bill…

“Republican Gov. Greg Abbott — seven days before the GOP primary election in which he’s being accused of not being conservative enough — ordered state child welfare officials to launch child abuse investigations into reports of transgender kids receiving gender-affirming care. “   “A recent study showed that more than 40% of transgender youth attempt suicide.…