It’s worth noting how different this is from being the parent of a gay adolescent. An adolescent who comes out as gay asks her parents to accept her for what she is. An adolescent who is transgender-identified asks to be accepted for what she is not. Even the most loving parent might be forgiven for failing this mind-bending test.
stares at decades of homophobia built on the foundation that gay people are denying their ‘true’ straight, biological selves
