I Was Married With Kids In Small-Town Texas. Then I Came Out As Trans — And I Did Not Expect This Outcome.
Huff Post"Piece by piece, the armor fell off as the yuccas and sotols whizzed by, and by the time I left Alpine the next day, I knew I had to transition or die," the author writes of a realization while driving in Texas. Photo Courtesy Of April Maria Ortiz It wasn’t a bolt out of the blue when I came out to my wife, but it wasn’t exactly expected, either. This way, maybe, maybe, we could get to know one another anew, and I could be the parent I’d always been meant to be. As for my youngest daughter, well, she’s growing up in a different world even from her two siblings, even here in the armpit of Texas. It makes me think of this country song, “Red and Rio Grande,” by Doug Supernaw: As I travel down that blue bonnet highway I’m thankful I was born a lucky man And I know that I will live and die my own way Somewhere between the Red and Rio Grande That’s the Texas I grew up in, and that’s the Texas I love.
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