Mom, I Need To Be A Girl

Mom, I Need To Be A Girl

By Just Evelyn

1998, Walter Trook Publishing

115 Pages


From the Cover

About the book, Phyllis Randolph Frye says, "I remember when Just Evelyn contacted me in 1994 or so for legal help for her teenage transsexual child, and I could give her none, other than strategies and role models, to encourage her to push the system to work for her daughter. And push she did. Just Evelyn's book about her new daughter Danielle, will join my personal list of four other books - boiled down after 23 years of out activism - that I will recommend to folks like her to read. Actually, this is a must read for ALL parents of ANY transgendered child of ANY age. It is heartwarming with touches of humor, insight, guidance and things to avoid. It is chatty and very readable. I laughed as Danielle exceeded the expectations of her own very outgoing mother. I felt justified as I read of many of Danielle's learning problems being reduced or going away as she no longer carried the extra heavy burden within of hiding her true self. I cried several times as I read it because I felt Evelyn's love for her new daughter juxaposed over my own parents and siblings 23 years of rejection and ostracism of me. I clapped as I read Just Evelyn scold many in the helping professions who are often educated BY us, yet they charge a high fee or have a financial conflict of interest in their treatment regimes, and give us little or no meaningful help at all. The excesses of the gatekeepers are exposed with details, and at the end is a listing of how-to's and what-to-avoid's - thank you, Just Evelyn."

"...mom, I need to be a girl" is, in my honest opinion, essential reading for any parent whose child is transsexual. The book is a testament to unconditional love for one's child. Rare would be the transperson who doesn't get a bit wistful and misty-eyed reading Evelyn's account and her own unfailing support of her child. - Robert Serven PFLAG-TSON, Heartlands Regional Director
Table of Contents

1. Anguish
2. Learning
3. Accepting
Letters from Family
Advice to Teens
Advice to Parents
High School
Counseling
Endocrinologist
Electrolysis
Surgeons
The Vultures
Glossary
Reading Recommendations
Resources