Clumsy Love: A Father's Journey Parenting His Transgender Daughter

In the summer of 2011, at a gathering in the north woods of Wisconsin, my four-year-old son, and only child, “Simon” conspicuously tried dressing as a girl, donning a pair of oversized fairy wings and stunning his extended family into silence. Four years later, he informed my wife and me that he was a girl and would be wearing a dress to her ninth birthday party. By thirteen, she'd legally changed her name from Simon to Simone, and the three of us began making regular trips from our home in...