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A review by evila_elf
Raising Ryland: Our Story of Parenting a Transgender Child with No Strings Attached by Hillary Whittington, Kristine Gasbarre
4.0
This was an interesting read.
I found the mother very passive and hands off at first, but it is hard to critique the actions of the parents because this is what happened in real life. I enjoyed her honesty and I would love to read a sequel about Ryland growing up.
The use of present tense threw me off some because this is so obviously a story being told of actions that have already happened.
I did go out hunting for the video that she made of Ryland and easily found it on Youtube. Then I dug a little deeper and found a short film that goes into more detail than the video did. This is about 13 minutes long:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/03/17/digital-shorts-parenting-transgender-child-orig.cnn
I found the mother very passive and hands off at first, but it is hard to critique the actions of the parents because this is what happened in real life. I enjoyed her honesty and I would love to read a sequel about Ryland growing up.
The use of present tense threw me off some because this is so obviously a story being told of actions that have already happened.
I did go out hunting for the video that she made of Ryland and easily found it on Youtube. Then I dug a little deeper and found a short film that goes into more detail than the video did. This is about 13 minutes long:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/03/17/digital-shorts-parenting-transgender-child-orig.cnn