Fri Dec 14, 2012 at 08:28 AM PST
Conquering the Room For Ladies
by laurustina
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/14/1169723/-Conquering-the-Room-For-LadiesThree weeks into my daughter's gender transition, we make our first public appearance as a family. In retrospect, this momentous event should have occurred at a more auspicious venue than the local Red Lobster, but there is no handbook for parenting the transgender teen (none that I could find anyway) and so we stumbled head-on into Grandma Kay's Birthday Dinner blazing a path few would choose to follow.
"Doesn't she know we don't eat seafood?" Alice asks from the back seat, where the dark cloud of a teenage funk has settled over her head.
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I know she's nervous. We're all nervous. This is the first time Grandma Kay will see Alice in person since her announcement and subsequent transformation. Jay's brother Unkie D. filled her in on the details two weeks ago and both Jay and I have talked with her about it since then. Still, seeing her rough-and-tumble grandson in a hot pink sweater, lavender eyeshadow and little China Doll slippers is bound to be a bit of a shock.
