Would YOU back your 16-year-old if he wanted to change sex? How Miranda Parram is fighting for her son's human right to wear make-up

By Kathryn Knight

PUBLISHED: 17:43 EST, 29 July 2012 | UPDATED: 01:43 EST, 30 July 2012

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2180798/Would-YOU-16-year-old-wanted-change-sex-How-Miranda-Parram-fighting-sons-human-right-wear-make-up.html?ITO=1490

Whether it's the fact that her skirt is too short, her heels too high or her make-up too liberally applied, 16-year-old Ashlyn Parram looks a typical teenage girl — keen to push the boundaries of what is acceptable to her parents and elders.

But while Ashlyn may seem, on the surface, to be just like her friends and classmates, there is one profound difference between her and them.

Ashlyn is genetically male, having lived as a boy by the name of Lewis for the first 15 years of her life. Only in the past year did Lewis become Ashlyn, after changing her name by deed poll.

Wow, The Mail says "she" - they're messing with my head!

Quote from: Padma on July 30, 2012, 07:36:17 AM
Wow, The Mail says "she" - they're messing with my head!

I'd like to think they did this out of compassion/empathy but with the Mail you never know. Her mother seems incredibly supportive though, which is a great thing.
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In reply; How do you spell, ABSOLUTELY?

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Catherine

I wonder if there will ever come a time when people look back and laugh at newspapers for using the "sex change" language? It makes it sound like an oil change, something you just get done on a whim. One of the good things about "gender transition" is that everyone realises a transition takes time, involves movement.

Quote from: Padma on July 30, 2012, 09:41:28 AM
One of the good things about "gender transition" is that everyone realises a transition takes time, involves movement.

Thats a good metaphor for it. I suppose I imagine it as a long twisted road, with curves, bumps, ups and downs. We begin in the deep dark woods and slowly overcome all these obstacles to finally reach the top of a hill bathed in sunlight, and from there we can touch the stars

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Quote from: Padma on July 30, 2012, 09:41:28 AM
I wonder if there will ever come a time when people look back and laugh at newspapers for using the "sex change" language?

I don't know. Maybe, but it is pretty rare so I don't really see most people ever getting that much more exposed to it than they already are.

I would.

She's really pretty. oAo

And the article actually calls her she most of the time, that's a big change.
I wait for the day when it's not shocking for people, and people will just be like
"You go, girl!"
or "Way to go, sir!"

Anyway, I would support my kids no matter what.
Even if I wasn't transgender, or knew nothing about it.
It's just the way my family is.

My dad told me when I came out to him that he was proud of me no matter what.
and when I asked him if I didnt turn out the way he wanted he said to me
"I didn't have kids so they would turn out they way I wanted."
He had kids because he wanted kids, he wanted them to be themselves. He had no specific plans for any of us,
he's just happy with us the way we all are.

I support them , even if i don`t agree to all the want 

A couple of years older, but yes I did.