Father details struggles raising transgender child
April 18, 2012
By AMANDA WHISTLE , The Leader Herald
http://www.leaderherald.com/page/content.detail/id/546318/Father-details-struggles-raising---.htmlJOHNSTOWN - A father's journey while fighting for his transgender child's rights has taken him through the Maine state Legislature, courtrooms and the national media. It's now taken him on a speaking tour, with his first stop at one of his alma maters.
Wayne Maines, a Fulton-Montgomery Community College graduate, returned to his former school Tuesday to explain how his beliefs - those of a "Ronald Reagan conservative" - were tested when one of his identical twin sons began presenting as a transgender girl.
"I'm still a pretty conservative guy. I struggle internally with politics in the world because I don't know who to vote for," Maines said. "I'm now a semi-conservative independent with a transgender child. How do you figure that one out?"
