Holding Space for the Gender Journey

Journeys are rarely linear. We all know this familiar literary trope.

When my kid, who I’ll call “A,” was in elementary school, the exploration of gender identity and pronouns began. This is not a new story line for most parents these days. Many of my friends were or are still navigating this with their kids. But, as odd as it sounds, it took me a while to figure out what A was going through was in fact a journey, rather than a linear, straight-forward declaration of their gender.

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