re: Do you know anyone who is trans?

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I suspect it has always existed to some degree,

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Ironically, my kid isn’t the first in my family, so it’s possible there is a genetic link. Growing up, my mom talked about her cousin John who had a “sex change.” I never met them, as they lived in another state and were much older (would be 70-80 now.) I remember the family either cracking jokes about it or blaming the mom, saying she must have encouraged it because the kid was seen trying on dresses as a kid in the 1950s. Also, there’s a great-uncle on the other side who is gay. Maybe it skips a generation.

It’s interesting that the gender issues showed up very young in an otherwise traditional Catholic family, and our family didn’t have any known sexual abuse victims or anything else that would be considered out of the ordinary. I’ve been asked many times if my kid was ever abused or molested, because people think something must have happened to make them this way.