Transgender Parent: Child's Journey When Mom Becomes Dad
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
March 27, 2012
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/transgender-parenting-children-cope-mom-dad/story?id=16010681#.T3MQf45EYas (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/transgender-parenting-children-cope-mom-dad/story?id=16010681#.T3MQf45EYas)
When Sabine Bartlett was 13 her mother, who had been divorced from her father for a decade, transitioned from female to male.
Even though Sabine had grown up in a Unitarian Church with lots of gender and sexual diversity, Sabine knew little about being transgender.
Now 16 and living in Somerville, Mass., Sabine remembers her mother was "never particularly feminine," but began to "present as more butch."
"I came home from a trip with to my Dad's house and mom sat me down on the couch and told me she was going to transition," she said. "It's hard to face the fact that someone who is close to you changes at all -- especially a change that big."
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'At first I felt a sense of loss': Teenager whose mother became a man describes her own emotional journey
By Tamara Abraham
PUBLISHED: 16:05 EST, 27 March 2012 | UPDATED: 16:55 EST, 27 March 2012
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2121221/Sabine-Bartlett-16-mother-man-describes-emotional-journey.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2121221/Sabine-Bartlett-16-mother-man-describes-emotional-journey.html)
By all accounts, transitioning from one sex to another is a difficult emotional journey. But rarely do we hear the story of those closest to them.
Now, a teenager has described the challenges and judgement she herself faced when her mother went through a sex change.
Sabine Bartlett, 16, from Somerville, Massachusetts, describes the 'sense of loss' she felt three years ago when her mother, who had been divorced from her father for a decade, announced that she was going to become a man.