A Father's Day Transgender SurpriseJun 17, 2012 4:45 AM EDT
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/17/a-father-s-day-transgender-surprise.html
The last time Maria Chico's father saw her, she was a baby boy. Would her dad accept her 30 years later—as a woman? As told to Samantha Marshall.
The last thing my father knew, he had a son. He could only ever remember me as a baby boy, swaddled in my mother's arms. He had no idea that I was male by gender only, or that I was miserable, alone, and confused, until, at age 21, I completed a series of operations to become the person I was meant to be—a woman. So when I drove out to see him last week, our first encounter in 30 years, I felt sick with anticipation. Would he reject me, like so many other people had done before?
My whole life, I've longed to know my birth father. There were so many unanswered questions. My mother's explanation was that he'd abandoned us. But I always wondered if that was the full story. Did he really leave me, or was it just the bitterness of his breakup with my mother that had torn us apart? Did he ever try to find me? If he had, it couldn't have been easy.
