“Once I was able to understand that my daughter was actually my son, I had so many other questions - what else don’t I know?” When we don’t see our children … that come out in cutting or dropping out of school, suicide attempts, drug addiction, fighting and bullying…However, in the data alone, we’ve seen that family acceptance raises the life and the quality of life for trans people.” In retrospect, I did not know he was trans, I did not know he was a boy, I did not see his identity and that was carving a pain so deep that he did not want to wake up in the morning and he did not want tomorrow to come, as he said. Radical parenting is building from the bottom up, it’s building up children, it’s building up families through activism, and community.” On Seeing Her Son Through New Eyes “When I think about what parenting should look like going forward, instead of domination it’s more collaboration instead of top-down authority it’s more working from within. Then you just have to love everyone, love your kid, and get real close with your kid.” Once I felt like I had done the data part, it was important for me to connect with other people who are trans because to think that your child is the only trans person in the world, is detrimental. I read books, I went online, and I sat in on conferences, to as many as I could every month, trying to take in as much information as possible. “I just deep-dived into this world I was trying to understand, this world of gender identity and trans gender identity, specifically. “When I think about what parenting should look like going forward, instead of domination it’s more collaboration.” The Path to ‘Radical Parenting’ Serena Williams Gets Glam While Cuddling Daughter Olympia in These Sweet Photos Their voice is much more optimistic, their voice has no regret, their voice is triumphant, their story around gender and identity is more of a superhero story, and there’s no tragedy to it, so I really wanted that to come across.” “So, I sat with my children and we put together a story that was in their voice. “I thought, ‘Let me give you something that is more for your child,'” she says. Patterson chronicled her family’s journey in the 2019 book The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformationbut when she learned that fans were reading it to their kids, she knew she wasn’t finished telling her story. “And it was going to be important for me to listen to him.” From there, Patterson embarked on an exploratory mission to understand her child, which led to a deeper understanding of herself as a mother. “In that moment, I didn’t have all the answers, but my child had the answers,” Patterson tells SheKnows. When author and activist Jodie Patterson’s three-year-old child Penel revealed, “‘Everybody thinks I’m a girl, but I’m not.
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