My child came out as trans – then I realised I was a lesbian

Edwina already had more courage than anyone I knew (Picture: Joshua Morris)

‘Let’s play mums and mums,’ my child Edwina said as she shoved the baby doll up my shirt. 

‘Don’t you mean mums and dads?’ I questioned.

‘No,’ she said confidently with a certain sense of conviction I didn’t yet recognise. 

Aged only three in 2018 Edwina was starting to question the rules she had inherited about gender, families and love. 

Born into a boy’s body, Edwina already had more courage than...