Salon dot comBy Cary Tennis
My husband of nine years just told me last Christmas that he's a transsexual and wants to transition to living as female full time. This wasn't actually a huge surprise to me, and while I'm sad our marriage has dissolved, I'm also relieved -- we're still good friends and good parents, if we do say so ourselves.
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I mean, frankly, just celebrate this thing, OK? Let's not fear it, or be ashamed of it, or whisper about it, or make up stories about it. Let's welcome this new guest, the strangeness of life. Let's tell the truth and celebrate the truth. Daddy is a woman in a man's body. Daddy was born that way. Daddy is a transsexual. These things happen. It's nothing to freak out about.
