Transgender children: 'This is who he is – I have to respect that'

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/12/transgender-children-have-to-respect-who-he-is

The Guardian/Jenny Kleeman Saturday 12 September 2015 04.00 EDT 

"Cassie Wilson can pinpoint the moment her daughter Melanie became her son, Tom. They were in the supermarket and Melanie, then two and a half, said: "I don't want to be a girl any more – I'm going to be a boy, and I'm going to be called Tom."

"That was that," Cassie tells me. "I said: 'Come on, then, Tom.' He could have said he was called anything and I would have thought, great, fine, let's get on with the shop."

"I was wearing my Spiderman costume," Tom, now five, remembers.

"Yes, you were," Cassie nods."