Podcasts Education Parenting a Transgender Child, with Nicole Pecoraro

Parenting a Transgender Child, with Nicole Pecoraro

Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 5 a.m.

I had a powerful conversation with Nicole Pecoraro. Nicole’s platform is called Mom Trans Parenting, where she educates and shares her own personal story of being mother of a transgender child.
Nicole was so gracious with me. I’ve never had a personal conversation with someone from the transgender community. I always want to know the right thing to say and be eloquent, but I had to be honest with Nicole and say ‘I don’t know how to talk about this. Can you help me?’
 
We talk about her process as a mom when her daughter came to her and said ‘I think God put me in the wrong body. I feel like a boy.’
We talk about well meaning people who thought they had all the answers, but were really hurting Nicole and her son. 
We talk about how we can support the moms of transgender community and teach our kids to love EVERYONE; whether they’re transgender, differently, abled, look, act, or believe differently from our kids.
 
Friends, I know this can be a tender subject for many of you. It was hard for me. But I think we judge because we’re scared. I think we avoid these kinds of conversations because we’re afraid of what we don’t know. I think there would be a whole lot less ‘fighting in the comments’ if we would just seek to understand.
 
What I hope you get out of this episode is that we are all the same, in so many ways. We’re all humans. Moms, whether they’re moms of transgender kids, stereotypical suburban kids, gay kids, straight kids, or kids with purple hair, are all just trying to do what’s best for our babies. We’re all just trying to protect the ones we love the most.