Mother-Son memoir tackles gender transitionAntoinette Weil, October 21st
"You know Mom, life isn't worth living if I can't be a boy." At four-years-old, this was the first time that Marie Harvie had verbalized her feelings that something about her wasn't right.
"My Daughter, My Son: An Adolescent's Gender Transition Experienced by Mother and Child" tells the harrowing, yet uplifting story of Betsie and Luca Harvie as they forged their way through the murky waters of gender identity issues and came out triumphant, and closer than ever.
For Luca, who has come full circle to become the well-adjusted man he'd always dreamed of being, wife, job, home, and all, his advice to young people is to start by accepting yourself.
"There is nothing wrong with you," said Luca. "There are a lot of us, and we're normal, and most of us are very happy. It doesn't seem like it when you're a kid, but it is possible to be happy and to live this life."
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