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I dreamed of a boy, birthed a girl, now my child is non-binary

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I stumbled over the “they.” It felt clunky in my mouth. By Melissa Brand

May 20, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

Q&A: You Don’t Have to Be Everything

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Talking to Diana Whitney about her collection of poems for girls becoming themselves. By Daisy Florin

May 13, 2021 Books, Culture

Explaining to our kids that babies are made in more than one way

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In 2021, it’s not unusual by any stretch for doctors, friends, and donors to have a hand in reproduction. By Jennifer Berney

April 29, 2021 Books

This is what happened when I came out to my kids

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I told my kids in McDonald’s. Because when you’re about to drop that kind of bomb, really you want them to be eating french fries. By Lauren Apfel

March 2, 2020 Culture

Meeting my transgender daughter for the first time

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“What did you expect, Mom?” said my kid, laughing now, in her same boy-voice she’s always had. By Joanna Franklin Bell

November 27, 2019 Culture

Accepting my friend’s son when she can’t

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“Ryan,” I say. “If you ever want to play with the girl dolls, we have them. In this house, you can play with whatever you want.” By Ann Wainwright

October 11, 2019 Culture

The watershed moment I realized I wanted to be a mother

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I wonder now why it came as such a shock to me that friends would get married, that wild nights out would become sleepless ones at home with a baby. By Claire Lynch

July 18, 2019 Family

My grandson tells me he doesn’t like the color of his skin

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In the summer, I put my sunbaked arm down next to his hoping he will notice it’s not so different. By Adrienne Sciutto

June 10, 2019 Culture, Parenting Challenges

The ties that bind: coming to terms with my child’s gender

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I saw him as I thought he was, an elegant young man for whom I could buy something expressly male. How wrong I was. By Penny Wolfson

January 10, 2019 Culture

How to swerve: my unconventional path to fatherhood as a gay man

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I was a singer. She was a groupie. We decided to have a baby together. By Stewart Lewis

August 9, 2018 Culture

To my daughter who thinks she might be gay

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There’s so much against you: the world’s cruel prejudices, its judgment.
By April Vázquez

July 24, 2017 Culture

My son wants to be a cheerleader

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Being an advocate for a cause in general is quite a separate thing from letting your own kid be different.
By Kimberley Moran

June 12, 2017 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Top surgery “show and tell” with my transgender son

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He’s passing as a boy now—as long as he binds his breasts.
By Katrin Grace

May 11, 2017 Culture, Family, Obstacles

Sometimes it’s painful to be a gay parent in public

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If my partner and I had been straight we might have all nodded to each other in recognition, but because we are queer, our difference is what stands out.
By Jennifer Berney

May 1, 2016 Culture, Parenting Challenges
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