General Article 'My trans daughter'

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Sharon has a teenage daughter who is transgender. She describes how Nicki was born in a male body, but felt from a very young age that she should have been a girl.

 

“When my child Nick was about two, I realised that he wasn’t playing with toys that I expected a boy to play with. He was interested in dolls and girly dressing-up clothes.

“At that age, it doesn’t really matter. You just think they’re trying lots of different things, so I never made a fuss about it.

“But when he was four years o...

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