"How was I supposed to try to conceive a child if I didn’t even have a boyfriend?"

"I’m wild except when I’m blue, / and then I am conventional, / stalking silhouettes on the curtain, and imagining / the worst."

"I lost my doctors, I lost my access to my medication, but because my community is not weak, because we don't back down, I got it all back."

What does this have to do with being trans? With parenting a trans teen?ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! We are not only and always defined by this single facet of my child’s identity.

Personally, I just like to pretend this person doesn't exist. I don't want to validate her in any way, even by thinking about her for a moment.