The Best Birthday Present

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The Best Birthday Present


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Melissa McLaren
Posted: 07/16/2015 2:28 pm EDT Updated: 28 minutes ago

Today, my kids celebrate their 10th birthday! My son will be going with my husband and my dad this afternoon to run some errands, have lunch, and probably belly up to the bar for a quick root beer. There will be a family dinner out at a place of the birthday boy's choosing. My daughter, however, isn't with us to celebrate her birthday today. She won't be joining us for dinner and I won't get to see her open the small gift that I surreptitiously gave to someone else to give her. You see, this year, we gave my daughter the best birthday gift that we ever could have bestowed.

The chance to be a normal kid.

My daughter constantly feels different from her friends. Even when she is giggling with her besties in the yard or playing Minecraft with her brother, she knows that she is not quite the same as other children. To look at her, she appears to be exactly as a 9-year-old (ahem, TEN year old) girl should appear. We have a lot of the same conversations that many families have.
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Here's a really sweet story about a ten year old transgender girl and a loving, caring family.