Three Things I Wish Everyone Knew About Having a Transgender Child

Michelle Baade
5 min readOct 30, 2020

#1. Emotionally supporting my transgender child is a life-and-death decision.

Really. Truly. Honestly. And statistically — with lots of actual data to back it up.

If I choose not to support my child (or my child is forced into environments where they are not supported), the chances of her harming herself go up to over 80%…

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Michelle Baade

Truth-teller. Writer. Photographer. Banjo/guitar/ukulele player. Mom to four kids, one is transgender. Married to my favorite person. www.michellerothwrites.com