Hello Mumof4
You cannot know how much your support and acceptance will mean to your daughter. This can be a tough road and having your immediate family on board does make a huge difference.
Back in the 1960's, when as a naive toddler I first blurted out my secret in a London shoe shop and demanded that my mother buy me a lovely little pair of girl's read shoes I was one of the lucky ones blessed with a parent like you.
What started was the most incredible journey, and a wonderfully close bond between us, as in my slightly haphazard way I grew up and gradually became fully myself, without facing many of the trauma's and obstacles that 99% of others still face even today. The journey ended with my surgery in my mid twenties, but the bond endured until my mother's death in 1995.
By chance my mother was a radio producer and had met April Ashley and therefore knew of the condition, although how she managed to remain so cool when apparently confronted with it in her own child I cannot imagine, unless perhaps she knew something already.
Either way she was a remarkable woman, and so are you.
As Janet has done the official moderator stuff I won't bother other than to say WELCOME.
