Yes!!

💖💖💖

alright sit down everybody because I’m about to tell you all a little story of my friend Shannon. Shannon is a transgender girl that I’ve known and been close friends with since we were about 10 years old. She’s one of the most talented people I’ve ever met, an absolutely amazing dancer, actress, and singer. And now, the whole world is going to know all about it. For this month, J-14 magazine is featuring her as the “Real Girl” of the month, which is something they do every issue that highlights one ordinary teenage girl, just like Shannon. This is such a huge deal, because the more we see stuff like this in mainstream media such as magazines aimed at teenage girls, the more acceptance people like Shannon are going to get in their everyday lives. This is such a huge deal, and I’m so incredibly proud of Shannon for everything she’s accomplishing. Pleeeease reblog this to spread the word, share it on facebook, instagram this picture or one of you holding the issue using #shannonj14, tweet it, spread this like wildfire because this is such a huge deal to me, to her, her family, and trans teenagers and allies everywhere. 

also here’s some of Shannon’s links to social media stuff, check her out!

instagram | youtube 

A woman genetically born a man has given birth to healthy twin girls thanks to hormone replacement therapy that allowed her to grow a womb to carry the babies.

What's in a name?

I'm a mom, but my wife and I both agree that we can't both be called that.  It's confusing.

"Hey, mom, where are my shoes?!" "I don't know, ask your mom!"

"Can you spend the night tonight?" "My mom said I could, but mom overruled her."

Some lesbian couples can pull this off, but I just don't think it's for us.  So since we've known we were going to be parents, we've been trying to work this out, but we're still no closer to figuring it out.  Looking online at various lesbian parenting websites, this is a pretty common hurdle, and there's no uniformity of answer we've found.

I guess we keep working on it. :\

Suggestions welcome.

Transparency

Hi!

My name is Amy, and I'm a mom.  Our baby was born on August 6, and was seven weeks premature (through no fault of his own), his name is Elliot, and he's awesome.  He's been in the NICU until just very recently, when we were finally able to take him home.

So, those are my mom bona fides.  The rest of my story is probably not as conventional; you see, I'm transgender.  No, I did not carry my baby in my uterus, because I do not have one; my wife does, on the other hand, and she carried him just fine.  But I'm his mom, and my wife is his mom, too, and that's just great with us.  Will that cause some issues down the road?  Probably, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it, and I'll put all the results in this blog for the world to see, warts and all.

The impetus of this blog sprung from my experiences in bookstores, of all places.  My wife and I are very scholarly when it comes to trying to find the best way to help our child along, and while we found ample books on parenting from the perspective of gay and lesbian couples, we found almost nothing about parenting from a transgender context.  So maybe that's what this blog will be: a collection of thoughts and methods to provide an example for others in the same situation, in addition to our hopes and fears and trials.  It will chronicle challenges and joys and the unique paradigms of raising a child while still trying to find your own sense of identity in the world, and I hope it's just as helpful for my own family as it may be for others.

Feel free to submit articles, send messages, or ask any questions of me that you may have, and I'll do my best to answer them in a timely fashion.  We're all in this together.

- Amy

September 2, 2014