Tucker FitzGerald - A mentally ill unfit parent if you ask me - My six year old transgender daughter (Crossdressing faggot son) should not have to use the men's restroom
My daughter is in kindergarten. She's 6. She loves unicorns and mermaids and soccer. And I'm concerned about my community forcing her to share the restroom with men.
Currently she uses the girls' restroom. But some Washington state legislators want her in the men's room — because she was born with a penis.
It feels uncomfortable writing about my child's genitals. But I'm not sure how else to protect her.
And I know I've already lost some readers. People have lots of assumptions about transgender children and their parents. Maybe radical lesbian feminists conducting gender experiments?
But the truth is that I tried to raise my daughter as a boy. Complete with blue walls and Tyrannosaurus rex pajamas. I gave her my father's name. Took her to church on Sundays. Her siblings have had no trouble with the genders assigned them. But it just didn't work for her.
When I realized my child would only wear dresses and wanted to grow up to be a princess, I tracked down a support group for parents of gender-nonconforming kids.
It turns out there are a lot of them. And the parents aren't those whom I imagined. Democrats and Republicans. Muslims and Catholics. Grandparents raising grandkids. Yes, there's a lesbian or two in the mix, but even they are baffled about how this happened. All these parents were scared and confused at first.
I also talked to my pediatrician and read national psychological and medical associations' positions. If my child was having mental-health problems, I wanted to help.
They all agreed: I need to let her be herself. If I love and support her, as a girl, she'll be happy and healthy. But if I try to force her to be a boy, she would be in a very high suicide-risk category.
So when confronted with trusting her heart and mind, or trusting her genitals, I choose her heart and mind. There was no rational choice other than to support her as a girl.
And, of course, I want her safe from predators. I learned that transgender people are at extreme risk for sexual and physical violence. The Southern Poverty Law Center recently declared transgender women the most victimized group in the nation. Victims, not predators.
Examples of a transgender person, or a man pretending to be transgender, assaulting someone in a restroom are rare. The Human Rights Campaign and the American Civil Liberties Union have pointed out that there are no documented cases in the U.S.
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