What's in a Name?

[Shana A]

Julie Ross
Blogger, George.Jessie.Love

What's in a Name?
Posted: 08/15/2012 2:59 pm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julie-ross/whats-in-a-name_b_1740083.html

As we prepare for the beginning of another school year, I turn to thoughts of the one gone by. It was one riddled with complications, transitions and enormous change. This might be a good time to tell you that my daughter Jessie spent the first three and a half months of school -- not to mention the prior nine years -- as George: a complicated, funny, dyslexic and wildly artistic child. In December of fourth grade she socially transitioned from male to female and finished out the year with a seamlessness that no one could have anticipated.

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As accustomed as I have become over these past few months to calling my second-born "Jessie," I will admit that there are times that I miss not only George the person, but George the name.