I'm Proud to be Transgender

Callie informed me she wanted to help me write the blog post today, with over 100 posts published I am gladly accepting suggestions! She seems to have a lot to say right now so let me give you some background. We recently have started reading Jazz Jenning's new book "Being Jazz", it's a much more grown up version of "I am Jazz!" and I debated on allowing Callie to listen in on what it had to say. After a lot of begging and pleading from Callie I decided to go for it, she needs to know what may happen in her life so we might as well prep her. As we were reading the book I decided to stop occasionally and ask her some questions about it, one part has really stuck out to me and that's what brought us here today. There's a part in the book when Jazz is talking about a Q&A where she was asked what she would do if a magical fairy came and was willing to make her into the person she should have been from day one. Jazz answered by saying "I would break the wand in half.", I paused there and asked Callie what she would do. After a few moments she smiled and said "I would break it too, I like the way I am." Because of the mature answer I decided to follow up with some more questions, why would she break it being the biggest question naturally agreeing to the fairy making you be, well YOU, is the easy answer. Face it, life would be so much easier if these two girls were born in the correct body, but both have decided they don't want that. Callie's answer kind of shocked me when she told me "It might be easy, but it's not me. I'm me because I'm transgender. I'm proud of it." She's four and comfortable in her own body, I'm 21 and still not okay with my body! With all the hate that a LGBTQ community has been getting I am impressed that a four year old is able to stand tall and say they are okay with the way they are amazes me and I think it's time we shed some light on positive stories from the community. Callie recently told me this "Being transgender is hard, but it's okay because I'm different so I'm special." So to all our LGBTQ family out there, you are special.