The office kitchen is abuzz with excitement.  Anna is pregnant!  Her second! “And it’s a GIRL!!!” On all sides, there are sighs and squeals and oohs and aahs. “Oh, a sweet little GIRL!”  “Now you have one of each!” (She has a two-year-old son.) I congratulate Anna on her news.  It is wonderful.  A miracle. …

When my child first told me, at age three, that she was transgender, I began a search for some reliable, research-based data to guide my parenting.   Four years later, I’m still searching. It turns out that there really isn’t any solid research that can address the questions that keep parents like me awake at night:  Is…