When Gender Ideology Comes Home From School
No parents are prepared for their child to adopt a trans identity. But that is exactly what happened to our family in the spring of 2020. Our daughter was 13 years old, and it was the height of COVID. She had entered adolescence with a somewhat complex profile. She is both gifted and struggles with focus and attention issues, which for many kids can read like symptoms of autism until their frontal lobes mature. Making and maintaining friendships had been a struggle for her leading up to middle school. She is a very creative child, but different from most other children...
