Jodie Penel: I had not one transe friend that i knew of. And so i took it a bit further and said, like, who's in my chosen family? Who's in my community? And no one reflected my son. So i went into am, you know, this mode if like just spreading out and touching all o the world. That looked like goling transgender a conferences, l g b t conferences, queer conferences.
Jodie Patterson’s son came out as transgender when he was just shy of three years old. Jodie knew her son would face many changes ahead, but what she didn’t anticipate was how much she would change too.
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