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Mother Goes into Retractions

When Yolanda Bogert of Jimboomba, Qld., Australia, learned the truth about the person she’d thought for 19 years was her daughter, she published a retraction in the births section of the Brisbane Courier-Mail. “In 1995, we announced the arrival of our sprogget, Elizabeth Anne, as a daughter,” the ad says. “He informs us that we were mistaken. Oops! Our bad. We would now like to present, our wonderful son — Kai Bogert.” Her son being transgender “is all very new to us,” she told a reporter, but “I needed to show my son I support him 100 percent.” Kai says “I am still me, but I am more me than I was a few days ago and feel free. I am so happy with what she has done. This last week has changed everything for me.” (AC/Brisbane Courier-Mail) ...I can think of something that didn’t change.
More Details: This story (and the next) are on my blog with more commentary, and the full text of the ad: http://www.thisistrue.com/blog-transpositions.html
Original Publication Date: 07 December 2014
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 21.

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