Thursday, Jan 27, 2011 15:01 ET
How we (re)named our transgender child
My husband didn't want to be involved, so my 11-year-old daughter and I went about it on our own
By Meg Whitlock

http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/01/27/renaming_our_transgender_child_open2011/

I am smitten with names, always have been. As a girl, I read the "What Shall We Name the Baby" book over and over until it was ragged and dog-eared. One day my father approached me anxiously asking whether I was pregnant. No, I wasn't, it was the love of names, the sounds that roll off your tongue, their meaning, their rhythm.

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The addition of our fourth child changed our family in ways we never could have imagined. Three years ago we brought home an 8-year-old boy from China. (Having three boys it made sense to add a fourth, what with hand-me-downs and room sharing.) It threw us all for a loop when we figured out that, while biologically a boy, she self-identifies as a girl. Despite the challenges, or perhaps because of them, our whole family loves her, accepts her and is proud of her courage.

While the article had some level of interest and the style was interesting in a generic sort of way, that woman must be one of the most shallow individals that has ever written such an article.

I mean to say:

QuoteOnly later did I find out that we'd inadvertently named our daughter after an American Girl Doll.

And this from a woman called Meg.