Couple learn to accept that son's gender identity is as a girl
Ashleigh Barry's 'Becoming Jackie' is one of five stories featured on '10TV News Presents,' an hourlong special airing at 7 tonight on WBNS-10TV
By Ashleigh Barry
WBNS-10TV Wednesday April 25, 2012 5:06 AM
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Sitting around the kitchen table, playing a spirited game of Monopoly, they look like the quintessential Midwestern family.
Take away the contemporary hairstyles and clothing, and the scene could be mistaken for a Norman Rockwell illustration from the 1950s: Mom is laughing, Dad is grimacing, and their daughters, Samantha and Jackie, are wearing conspiratorial smiles that suggest they're just a few rolls of the dice from forcing their parents into bankruptcy.
This isn't a typical family, though.
Jackie began her life 11 years ago as Jack.
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This is wonderful exposure for the transgender community. The reporters did a great job with this.
I saw that story also, yes...it was very well done!
so so happy for Jackie! I wish her the very best! and who among us here are not very envious? :)