She wants other parents to know that transitioning can be 'a beautiful thing'
The mother of a nine-year-old transgender girl wants other parents to know that their child transitioning can be a ‘beautiful thing’.
‘Anthony would ask to have his nails painted or have his make up done, but I just thought he was curious and experimenting or enjoyed role play – I didn’t think he was gender aware.AdvertisementMs Norris, a tattoo artist, said that she and Autumn now do ‘everything a mother and daughter would do’, adding that she particularly enjoys shopping with her daughter.
Autumn had told her parents she wanted to be a girl during the Easter holidays of 2017, with the pair thinking that she had just wanted to role-play. ‘When she said she wanted to be a mum someday and I told her she wouldn’t be able to give birth to a baby, she started to well up,’ Ms Norris said.‘But after a little cry, she said it’s okay because she would adopt all the children that other people don’t want.‘When it comes to big questions, she was so mature – she has such a lovely way of turning a negative into a positive.’Ms Norris has now written a book on life raising a transgender child and hopes it will bust taboos around the subject.
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