Parents of transgender children that get all their information from doctors and other parents: ya know you’re getting a filtered story, right? you’re listening to second-hand observations, with a significant amount of bias in there. 

Consider listening to transgender children and yes: consider listening to transgender adults. We know what it’s like, we were transgender children once. Even if we weren’t open about it yet, we were still transgender children. 

I see transgender parents travelling hundreds of kilometres to meet doctors and parents but never speaking to the transgender group full of transgender adults right in their own city. 

And think that is a shame and I also don’t think that’s innocent. What is it about our stories that you don’t wanna hear? Our non-passing voices? our pride? that we might point out the ways in which you are not respecting your child? that we might call your child by their prefered pronouns even when you don’t?