A Girlhood - A Letter to My Transgender Daughter

<p><b>'Stunning . . . Built like a thriller, moving, wise and illuminated on every page with love' -Joanne Harris, author of <i>Chocolat</i><br><br>A parent's deeply moving love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is.</b><br><br>When Carolyn Hays&rsquo;s child made clear to the family that they were all wrong, he was not a boy, but, in fact, a girl, the Hays shifted pronouns, adopted a nickname and encouraged her to dress as she felt comfortable. One ordinary day, a caseworker from the Department of Children and Families knocked on their door to investigate an anonymous complaint about the upbringing of their transgender child. It was this threat that instilled in them a deep-seated fear for their child&rsquo;s safety in the Republican state they called home. And so they uprooted their lives to the more trans-accepting Northeast United States, though they were never far from the hate and fea