Transition

By Sherry Anderson 

    When I walked into my daughter’s condo, after weeks of COVID-19 restrictions, I saw my 12-year old granddaughter had cut her long, beautiful hair to chin length with green highlights. Her appearance was considerably enhanced and it was apparently cooler in summer. 

    And for months, dressed in baggy pants and oversize shirts, she talked about her developing body and puberty, her first bra and becoming a teenager.  

    Except for students in her school she had little interaction with other young people. 

    But the change in hairdo finally took me by surprise. It was obvious now Mandy no longer looked like a girl. 

    Later Mandy told her mother and me that she, Mandy, she decided she is a Trans-boy and she wants to be referred to as he or him. She said she hates that her breasts are growing and she bought something to flatten her chest. 

    I told Mandy I was a tomboy until I was about her age. She explained she is Trans which is different.  

    One saving grace may be that the school kids all talk about transgender topics and don’t seem to find it all that strange.  Everyone will move on but in what direction? 

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