Sun Nov 25, 2012 at 02:11 PM PST
Super-Progressive Mommy Conquers Intimate Apparel
by laurustina
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/25/1164574/-Super-Progressive-Mommy-Conquers-Intimate-ApparelWhen my 15-year old daughter Alice revealed herself, I did what felt at the time like the most natural thing in the world ... I believed her. While the child standing in front of me still looked for all the world like the boy I'd raised, decked out in a Sean John jersey and steel-toed boots, I understood that this masculine exterior didn't necessitate a masculine interior, that if she believed with all her heart that she was female, that mattered. I did not imagine that this act of love would later be looked upon by others as a parental failure, that it would be held against me, as if somehow it made me complicit in her self-destruction.
And so, on the day after her revelation, my lunch hour finds me in the middle of the Juniors section of a department store near my office, staring at racks of girlie clothes with an overwhelming urge to shout "What the hell does one buy for their son who is suddenly apparently their daughter?"
I have never seen so much pink in my life.
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If I'm going to be the world's most progressive and accepting mother, I'm going to have to cross into the intimate apparel section at some point. I'm going to have to peruse all the lacy things and select the perfect panties for a child who yesterday morning was my teenage son. I don't think I can do it.
