Jodie patterson's son, pennel, came out to her as transgender more than a decade ago when he was nearly three years old. "Big girls cry and type at the same time" is a southern phrase used by women typing on typewriters. Patterson: I didn't have a network of people then to talk to. i stumbled upon a video of this little girl named jaz, who was a young trans kid at the time. And it just made me realize that representation matters."