Julie Hindsley shares why it was important for her transgender daughter Ella to have a gender reveal celebrating her transition.
, so they celebrated with a gender reveal photo shoot to make sure that Ella knows she is so dearly loved for who she is.
"As she was growing out her hair she would say things like 'when I'm a sister ...,' 'when my hair is long and I am a girl..,'" the mom recalls. The parents decided to seek help, for both themselves and for Ella, and a therapist recommended that the parents transition Ella socially as soon as possible"as they have found that affirming [transgender kids'] identity is the best possible thing for them."
"We packed a pair of her 'boy clothes' in her backpack every day," the mom says."She has never touched them since."She knows that some kids asked questions about Ella to the administration but the mom says that her daughter only came to her twice with situations where"kids weren't very nice to her about it."
"Pretty much all of our family have been supportive, and a few we had to spend some extra time with explaining things," she recalls. "I said yes of course as coming from a very conservative town with little to no support here, I know how huge it is to spread that awareness," she says. But shortly later, the coronavirus hit and the two moms had to put off their plans. for her trans daughter and posted that and my photographer again said 'let's do this!'" she recalls. She didn't post the photos on heruntil June 10, because -- as the mom explained in her post -- she was heartbroken.
Hindsley added that she knows gender reveals are often criticized by the transgender community, explaining that the tradition both relies on antiquated definitions of gender and"exhausted gendered symbols and codes" -- like pink is for girls and blue is for boys.
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