Pride Center launches group for transgender families

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Pride Center launches group for transgender families

By Ben Fulton
The Salt Lake Tribune
First published Feb 12 2011 05:15PM

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/51236909-76/transgender-group-pride-center.html.csp

Brianne Blanchard did many things before legally changing her name, sex and attire to live everyday life as a woman.

Growing up in Payson, Blanchard prayed every night to wake up a girl. Before serving six years in the U.S. Air Force, she told her LDS mission president in Japan that she may look the part of man, but felt more comfortable as a woman.

What Blanchard rarely did as the parent of two children, ages 3 and 7, was socialize with other families with transgender parents or children. So when she heard about Utah Pride Center's Kids Like Me playgroup late last summer, her family was one of the first to sign up.