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"Transgender Parents Speak Out About What Makes a Family"

Started by Gabrielle_22, August 14, 2014, 09:37:13 AM

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"The transgender parents of two young children living in Kentucky are raising consciousness about family, honesty, and love this week after some splashy media coverage in the British tabloids stemming from an appearance on 'The Ricki Lake Show' in 2013. 'It's good, because our goal was to have our story appear here in the States,' mom Bianca Bowser told Yahoo Health. 'Our main point is to express our similarities [to everyone else] and to advocate for the transgender community.'

"Bianca, 32, was born a boy named Jason, while her husband, Nick Bowser, 27, was born a girl named Nicole. They met and fell in love in 2009, before Nick's gender transition, in Atlanta. (A person's sexual orientation is distinct from a person's gender identity or expression.) Eventually, they decided to start a family, and Nick, still physically female (though he would eventually undergo breast-removal surgery), decided to carry Bianca's babies — something he described to the Mirror as being 'an absolutely horrible experience for me' because he already identifed as male.

"'We have the parts so we will use them,' Bianca told the Mirror. 'If we could change them we would, and they would be the other way around,' she said, referring to sex-reassignment surgeries that they both hope to undergo someday, 'but we cannot afford it and the children come first...'"

https://www.yahoo.com/health/transgender-parents-speak-out-about-what-makes-a-family-94649793492.html
"The time will come / when, with elation / you will greet yourself arriving / at your own door, in your own mirror / and each will smile at the other's welcome, / and say, sit here. Eat. / You will love again the stranger who was your self./ Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart / to itself, to the stranger who has loved you / all your life, whom you ignored" - Walcott, "Love after Love"
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