By: Robyn Lydick, Staff Writer
02/29/2008
Editor's note: The names of members of the "Holtz" family have been changed to protect their identities.
Colorado Community Newspapers"At an Independence Day outing, Jamie was running and wrestling with several boys.
Hoping they were wrong in their assessment, Mark asked her later if she thought that was male behavior.
"We were playing Star Wars and I was Princess Leia," she told her father.
"We tried to put her back in the boy box," Cheryl said. "The box exploded."
From the first day Jamie started living as a girl, the obsession with death vanished.
"We feel very clear that our child would never have made it to adulthood if we had not allowed her to transition,"
Cheryl said. "Against that background, the hateful comments and misunderstandings seem like nothing. We would rather have a girl who struggles against the prejudices of the world than a dead son.""
