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While their feelings are normal, it is not your responsibility to fix them or to take them on as your own. You get to decide both your willingness and emotional capacity to support your parents through any difficult emotions that arise. Celebrating gender exploration and transition allows us to reframe this feeling of loss as similar to any other developmental milestone. Like a parent who cries as their child goes off to kindergarten, change often mixes loss with pride and possibility.
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Rae McDaniel (Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self)