The Transition
by Helen T. Cohn
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One day, coming home from the temple where I served as rabbi, I spotted a bag from our local pharmacy on the kitchen counter. It was stapled shut, but the attached prescription for my 25-year-old daughter Laura announced its contents: testosterone. My worst fears were confirmed. I went to my bedroom and cried.
My daughter had always seemed to me completely feminine and interested in boys. Sometimes she even seemed reckless in her sexuality. At age 20 she gave birth to my granddaughter Rosie "out of wedlock." A year or so later she got married—wearing a puffy white dress and bright red lipstick—to a young man whom she had not known very long. When the marriage failed, Laura and Rosie came to live with me.
Later that year, Laura began a relationship with a woman.