My child came out as trans – then I realised I was a lesbian

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Edwina already had more courage than anyone I knew (Picture: Joshua Morris) ‘Let’s play mums and mums,’ my child Edwina said as she shoved the baby doll up my shirt. ‘Don’t you…

‘Let’s play mums and mums,’ my child Edwina said as she shoved the baby doll up my shirt.

‘No,’ she said confidently with a certain sense of conviction I didn’t yet recognise.

Aged only three in 2018 Edwina was starting to question the rules she had inherited about gender, families and love.

Born into a boy’s body, Edwina already had more courage than anyone I knew, to be so sure of herself.

I didn’t know where she got the courage from, but I suppose it’s something a child could do – be self-determined before the world clouds them.

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So, as she assured me that she meant ‘mums and mums’, I felt comforted by this strength.

Eventually, she would make me question my own relationship and identity too – because until then, I presented as a straight woman married to Edwina’s dad.

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