Mom hopes transgender child will help others ‘be free’

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Mom hopes transgender child will help others 'be free'

http://www.thestar.com/business/2013/06/22/mom_hopes_transgender_child_will_help_others_be_free.html
6/22/13
By: Francine Kopun

Danielle Sheridan, age 8, was born a boy.

Before she was 3, she began telling her parents she was a girl.

It wasn't a phase. She was insistent. She identified with Cinderella. She wanted to grow up and marry a prince.

She began dressing like a girl at home.

"We kept it in our home only because of our fear of society. We wanted her to be happy, but we wanted her to be safe," said her mom, Leah Sheridan, 35.

Finally, her daughter said she didn't want to live if she had to live as a boy.

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I applaud the Sheridans for letting their child be who she really is.