Should we tell them?

When you introduce your kids to someone it's typically easy, you just say their name and people can tell if they're a boy or girl. However, when you have a transgender child you don't want people to assume the wrong gender for your child. Callie looks like a girl, obviously, but I'm always afraid someones going to call her a boy and if that were to happen it would kill her inside. So we started thinking of what we should say, should we out her to people were just now meeting? Or should we let her be and have them never know? It would probably be easier for them not to know, however what if they say something against transgender rights and she overhears? What if they say something about "transgender people needing shot"(a comment she has overheard!) that's potentially putting her in an unsafe situation. But, at the same time telling some she's transgender and they think that way will also put her in an unsafe situation. There's really no winning in this situation in my opinion. No matter what I do my daughter could end up hurt, this was something I didn't actually worry about until the shootings in Orlando involving LGBTQ people and since that moment I've been terrified for my daughters safety. This isn't something I enjoy spending time worrying about to be totally honest, I'd rather have her just be comfortable with being herself. By being herself, I do in-fact mean being transgender-that is part of her! Sadly, I don't think she will feel comfortable with that for a long time-until everyone out there starts being okay with being transgender. That is my one wish, that she could live a safe, happy, healthy life. Please help make that wish a reality by starting to accept people like my daughter. In the words of Ellen Degeneres "Be kind to one another".