Recently my African American, 12-year-old grandson started a psychiatric outpatient partial hospitalization program. He is a smart, funny, loving big brother and he also happens to be trans.
It pains me as a grandmother to see him struggling to find solace within himself, his family and community. He is in the hospital now because of self-harm and suicidal ideation.
The program he is enrolled in is supposed to help him with his thoughts about himself and how to come to terms with being trans.
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