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<\/p>\nWhat It\u2019s Like When Your Daughter Becomes Your Son: WATCH<\/b><\/p>\n
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Earlier this month, Cosmopolitan<\/a><\/em> published a touching documentary featuring Jodie Patterson, a Brooklyn mother of five, whose son Penelope, started showing signs that he was transgender at a very young age.<\/p>\n After facing continual rejection of clothing, grooming, and other things, Patterson asked Penelope what was wrong.<\/p>\n “Because everybody thinks I’m a girl<\/a>,” Penelope replied.<\/p>\n Patterson explains: “And so I said, ‘oh baby, it’s fine. However you feel on the inside is great<\/em>.’ And he said, ‘no I don’t feel<\/em> like a boy<\/a> mom. I am<\/em> a boy<\/a>.’ And so that sentence was really hard, because I was ill-equipped, like, okay what do I do with that? I don’t know how to handle that.”<\/p>\n Cosmo’s 7-minute doc reveals what the family went through and how Penelope blossomed when the family started letting him lead the way. Cosmo writes:<\/p>\n Patterson decided to share her family’s story with Cosmopolitan.com<\/a> because she realized that gender politics is no longer a private conversation. “People are dying over it,” she says. “Until that changes, it’s important to speak out. All the evils — racism, genderism, all the isms — rely on silence. So in order to push social change, we need to speak up.”<\/span><\/p>\n Watch what it’s like when your daughter becomes your son:<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The post What It’s Like When Your Daughter Becomes Your Son: WATCH<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n