Growing Up Transgender: An Arizona Family In Transition

12/14/17
 
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from KJZZ,
12/15/17:

When Daniel Harrott’s (back center) children – Joshua (front) and Mason (right) – came out as trans, he realized he could, too. Soon, he met Shirley, a trans woman.

It was one of those totally ordinary family moments. But for Daniel Harrott, who lived most of his life as a woman, just everyday existence as a man is alchemy.

“It feels like you’re getting to live for the first time,” he said. “And my children are getting to be who they’ve always wanted to be.”

Eleven-year-old Mason — he’s the one with the bike — is living as a boy, after being assigned female at birth. And then there’s Joshua, 13, whose brown hair falls around her shoulders as she sits in her wheel chair.

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