LIFE LESSON #???...

While out picking up some shorts for LM (who has grown incredibly this summer) at Wal-Mart we experienced something my children have never experienced... They saw their first transgendered person. No it was not a Drag Queen, they have seen plenty of those. This person was an honest to goodness male to female transgendered person. She was walking away from us with blue jeans and a white spaghetti strap tank top. She had long curly blonde hair, a braod back and was obviously very conscious of the way she walked. She still had a man's gate and hadn't lost the adams apple. But she looked ok. Both of my kids said,"she looks like a man..."

Ahhhh, perfect time for a life lesson. I asked them if they knew what transgendered meant. My son did, my daughter didn't. So I explained it to them and of course added that it is normal and that person is doing what they can to make their world right. I love when I can take a few minutes to teach my children how to be tolerant of the world around them. We talked about what GLBT was an abbreviation for. We talked about how this is normal just like being straight is normal. I am and always have been intolerant of ignorance. Just because someone doesn't live the way I live doesn't make it wrong or bad, it just makes it different. I can only hope that other people feel the same way about me.