The 11-Year-Old Best Friends Transitioning Together | MY TRANS LIFE

[Music] just because I'm transgender doesn't mean I'm different in any way or that I'm a bad person I'm normal just like everybody else I'm glad that I have friends that actually understand what I'm going through it feels really nice because I now know who I am and who I was meant to be [Music] I really like this shirt it says born a unicorn because you know I was born in Munich and also this shirt has a little foreshadowing about what you might see um I also like this shirt as you know I think it's really pretty with all the stars and color I just think it's really cool and sits around the age of two she started asking for different types of toys and then I think the first big thing that we noticed was that she wanted to dress a Cinderella for Halloween shorts I like in here pull it out like this one because you know it's got like the lace and stuff which i think is super pretty so at right before her 8th birthday she came out from her room one morning and she said I'm Lilly all the time now only use girl pronouns and I'm not gonna be Jack anymore it I like this side that I was like really super psychedelic [Music] probably from first to third grade was when I would like Boyd a lot you know I was really sad going to school sometimes because I knew I was gonna be teased or bullied or like told like he shouldn't be Reina stuff cuz you know in second grade I was still saying my old name so that was like a week before you were born hmm and that's your first picture screaming baby like it's you I'll I used to cut your hair did you know that you hated it and you would just like you yell at me the whole time oh I'm sorry there you are picking out your Caroline so yeah your seventh birthday we went to the American Girl store we had lunch yeah I called ahead to make sure it was okay that nobody was gonna say anything to us hmm is it weird to look at that picture I know yeah why is it weird you just needs to seem like you know it's not me for me I was definitely nervous just because she was baby you know she was six years old I just could not wrap my mind around the fact that she knew she was a girl and how could a child that age know that yeah you know I just didn't get it and I did research and found that she's not the only one I think the support system is the biggest part of going through this process as parents of a trans kid there are people out there like me and then I realize you know I'm not the only transgender person in the world there these are see there's a really big community here huge and it just it's so comforting to me the fact that there's other kids and like they're all same Adrienne it's really cool to have that support system - we immediately became friends I like this person understands what I'm going through and like oh my god she's so nice and sweet and kind yeah and I wanted to be her friend when Fiona was young I really just thought I had a boy who like girl stuff well there is this time where I'm owning to be friends with this girl named Isabel and I'm like um I she said I'm a only have girl friends and I'm like but I am a girl [Music] she doesn't feel right in the body that she was in before and now that she's happy what she is in now that's good I don't really think anything different [Music] the standout moment for me when I I knew that I really couldn't even spend another day not transitioning was we were getting ready for bed one night and she said mama I need to tell you that I I think I was supposed to been born a girl and I said honey why do you think that and she said well because I have a girl brain and I have a girl heart and I knew at that moment that I needed to raise her differently couldn't I couldn't just deny that how did I first know that she was a she probably her whole life we became friends because we were both around the same age and transgender so we both got along really well I remember I was probably the only one in my classes who really hung out with the girls and played with the girl toys and stuff and it was just they felt really uncommon and I felt different the first time we let her go shopping in a skirt she was delighted she was dancing around and happy but also really really nervous about what people would think or say and since she's transitioned it's like she was in this little part and then she's filled out this whole persona of who she is once you start to read the medical background of what gender dysphoria is and that it's a medical condition it's not just a mental state it's not something that's made up when a 8 year old tells you she's in the wrong body she means it [Music] after she transitioned at 6 it was not a day the this was this was the happiest kid she was just embracing life you can see that there was this complete exuberance forgetting to just be who she really was [Music] we've had a lot of negative responses from strangers family friends Facebook people come out of the woodwork to let you know that that you're harming your child by allowing her to be transgender and it's something that we've just Scrolls off our back at this point any mother I think everybody worries about their kids being bullied but when you have a transgender kid obviously you know the fear of bullying just you know it just goes up exponentially I hope that Lily is happy that's all I want for her I want her to be feel that she can make choices in her life that support what she feels in her heart but as long as she is she can wake up in the morning me like I'm Lily on me and you'd be okay with it that's all that matters to me it feels really nice because I now know who I am and who I was meant to be I just want to like have people like hey you're a cool like there's nothing wrong with here anything like that they would know I'm transgender and there's like my hair long as I thought about it over the years I say um hey this is who I am and I need you to respect that or go over there don't hang out with me if you don't like me okay [Music] you

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Length: 9min 13sec (553 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 31 2018