What happens when your son tells you he’s really a girl

[EllieM]

What happens when your son tells you he's really a girl
Inside the families embracing the new world of gender variance

http://www2.macleans.ca/2014/01/13/what-happens-when-your-son-tells-you-hes-really-a-girl/

Cathy Gulli on Monday, January 13, 2014, Maclean's magazine

Since the summer of 2012, Olie Pullen has kept in her bedroom closet a Wonder Woman costume, which she loves, but has struggled to actually wear. The plan had been to don it on Halloween two years ago, but when that day came, Olie, now 11, chose to be a vampire instead. Dressing up in the red and blue costume would have exposed her at school and around her Montreal neighbourhood in a way that didn't feel right yet: Olie was, after all, born a boy. Oliver.
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Pullen Sansfaçon recalls having to tell a close family member who was disapproving, "If you can't accept this, you won't be able to see Olie anymore." Green, whose now-adult son wore dresses as a child, recalls her mother phoning to say, "Can you make sure that Liam comes in shorts today?" Another mother whose child is gender variant but doesn't want to be named says that there has been "full-blown opposition" from her relatives to her son living as a girl, "to the point where there's major rifts, and it's really sad."

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Well worth the read!
Overall, a positive artlcle in a mainstream Canadian publication. The treatment of the Gender Dysphoria topic was sensitive, and the issues of family and community were fairly addressed. To me, the article represents hope for the future, a better awareness in the general community of transgender people. I have to say, I got the warm & fuzzies when I read about the attentive parents in the article. Huge difference between them and the adults I knew in the late 50s and 60s. It appears that we are making progress