What does your family think?

I think one of the only topics I haven't fully touched on as far as Callie is concerned is our family's thoughts on how were raising her. As with every family you have people who support you and people who don't. We seem to have lucked out however and more than half our family is really supportive. I feel like the fact we knew before we found out kind of helped, we were pretty prepared when we got the diagnosis and had already told the family our thoughts on it. One of my aunts actually works with transgender people so she knew exactly what was going on and that what we were going through was 100% real. My mom loves Jazz Jennings so she was fine since she had heard of it. The other family members seem to be supportive, but most don't bring it up-which is find with us! However I do have one cousin who will either leave the room or change the subject anytime we mention Callie. I mean anytime, it doesn't even have to be gender related! It's like because Callie is transgender she's less of a person to her and that's not ok with me and honestly broken most of our bond. Other than that one person no one else seems to mind or at least they haven't vocalized it or made it known in anyway. Jason's side of the family is pretty supportive as well, minus his sister who hates me so is probably blaming me for this, they love Callie just the way she is. Jason's mom actually made me cry when we told her, we were afraid she wouldn't accept this because she is super religious, but she simply said "I loved her when her name was Noah, the only thing really changing is her name. She's always been this person.". It's safe to say that our little girl has more support than we expected, so to our family and friends who are supporting us. Thank you. To the ones we've lost because of our decision, when you have a child you'll understand. You sign on with no strings attached and this is just one of those times you have to do what's best for your kid. We're sorry you don't agree, but Callie is more important to us than you are. Sorry, but it's the truth.