Growing up transgender

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Growing up transgender

http://www.chicagoparent.com/magazines/chicago-parent/2015-september/transgender-daughter

Chicago Parent
Deb Quantock McCarey
August 24, 2015

With every birthday candle, every shooting star, every tooth lost, every passing day, Maxine made one wish before she went to bed.

"'Please, please, please, let me wake up a girl,'" her mom, Cherie, recalls.

After a long, difficult journey of being a girl in a boy's body, the precocious, tender-hearted Oak Park girl who likes hanging out with friends, playing tag and listening to Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Pink, is finally freely living her wish.

And at 12, she's happy.
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