Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.

I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.