Finding Myself in the Mother's Day Card Aisle

[Natasha]

Finding Myself in the Mother's Day Card Aisle

http://www.bilerico.com/2013/05/finding_myself_in_the_mothers_day_card_aisle.php
5/8/13

"I am not a stereotypical parent. This is not to say that I never nagged my children to do their homework and brush their teeth, or that I wouldn't give anything to protect them from the evils of the world--I did and I would. It's also not to say that I don't miss them terribly now that they are grown with lives of their own--I do. Or that I'm not super excited about my first grandbaby, due later this year--I am.

No, where I fall out of the stereotype is in my own personal expression of gender. You see, I am a transgender woman. Despite being assigned male at birth, I live my life, legally and socially, as a woman. For the past two decades, since my children were 7, 9, and 11 years old, they have known me as a woman."