Take a moment to go read Sometimes Daddies Do Get Pregnant (How I Do Queer Parenting), by Lucy Silva Marrero, at Hip Mama. It’s a rare but needed look at raising a child in a family with a transgender parent, and the challenges of painting a broader-than-usual picture of gender roles. “I love that my boy asked an ex-girlfriend of mine, ‘Are you a boy or a girl?'” Marrero writes, “and she answered ‘Neither/nor.’ And we talked about how people are boys or girls or a combination or something in between, and how everybody is different.” Wise words for all of us, as well as a reminder of the full breadth of the LGBT spectrum.
Weekend Reading on Transgender Parenting
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Thank you for sending me over to HipMama to read her post. It was a wonderful insight and I loved her great sense of humor and her skills at explaining life to her young son. I hope that she and her partner soon have an important announcement for the world.
The wired world is so full of words, so many of them valuable. But I, for one, rarely have enough time to comb the web for the gems. A great many of us rely on you to keep us connected to them. Thank you, Dana, for “hipping” us to this great piece.