Ask Matt: Reality Checks for a Son in Transition
March 5, 2012 by Matt Kailey
http://tranifesto.com/2012/03/05/ask-matt-reality-checks-for-a-son-in-transition/A reader writes: "Here is my question, which may or may not be written fully PC, so forgive me if it is not. My child is in the process of deciding about how far to take his gender change – and at age nineteen, is wisely not moving forward until he knows what he knows from the truest place within.
"He is sure he hates being called she, and he passes at college as male and was accepted as male even by the admin (yeah!), but he wonders about changing his body and if that is too far to go. He knows at age nineteen many things are uncertain, and he doesn't want to make a choice for life that he is not sure about. He's pretty mainstream, an engineering major on full scholarship, and "shades of gray" are not his cup of tea.