Clothes Shopping

I think for us the hardest part of this transition was getting her a new wardrobe. I mean really, I had twin boys think of all the fun outfits that I got to torture them with! She wasn't in the same size as my daughter so I literally had to get her all new clothes, we went shopping and she tried on outfit after outfit trying to find out what screamed "I AM A GIRL!"! That meant nothing blue, nothing athletic like, nothing at all masculine. We settled on several different dresses and a cute sweatshirt. This was all fine until it started getting cold. Where we live the weather is super unpredictable and can get cold any moment, which it did. So back to the store we went this time to get something Callie had been trying to stay away from:Pants. I know what you're all thinking, girls wear pants too! Which is so beyond true I'm sitting at my dining room table right now in jeans and a hoodie, but according to her therapist this is totally normal when you began transiting the child will refuse to wear anything that was associated with their biological gender. The other issue we had is an obvious one when shopping for a MTF person(male to female)-all the pants are super tight! Callie has told me over and over she just can't wear pants because it's uncomfortable because all the girl pants are super tight. We have tried buying larger sizes, stretchy ones, everything! No matter what we try it seems like the girl clothes conform to your body to be super revealing and this might be a little TMI, but this is why I started this blog to tell everyone the struggles of having a transgender child. My poor child has been wearing dresses all winter(with leggings under it but still!) she just wants to wear those cute leggings and stuff with the cute things on it like for example, there are Paw Patrol leggings, with Skye on them that every girl just loves, but my little one needs to cover things up. The struggle is so real right now especially as it gets closer and closer to summer time when we have to face a new issue of clothes shopping:Bathing Suits! To all the people who think being transgender is something kids are doing because it's the "in thing" you should honestly try taking your son shopping for girl clothes and look for pants that aren't crazy tight then you'll realize that no one would do this just because-and to all the clothing stores out there please make girls pants a little more comfy and less tight trust me I'd buy a lot more clothes for my girl if they fit her right.