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[quote=Anonymous]My teen and I had conversations together with all of the immediate family (grandparents/uncles and aunts/older cousins) and it actually went better than we expected, especially with one grandparent who blew us away with how ok they were with it. We didn't over explain anything, just told them that after a lot of work and the help from people way smarter about this than us, my child felt confident and ready to share this truth about themselves. Any push-back or questions or nonsense (and there was some nonsense) came to me later, directly and privately and not to my child, which was as it should be. I shared very little of that with my kid because they didn't need to hear it.

For everyone else in the world, my teen decided to use a milestone moment to take a great picture that left no doubt as to their gender and have me post it on social media with them tagged with their name. I simply posted it with a message celebrating the milestone, no differently than any other parent would in the same situation, and we let it all play out from there. People were AWESOME across the board, tons of congratulations on the reason for the post without any questions or comments on the obvious change in my child. Again, I got lots of private messages with questions, but as far my kid was concerned, it was exactly what they wanted it to be. [/quote]

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