Honestly, we don't know what happened. […] I found he had a bag of girl’s clothes belonging to his sister and me. This was our first real red flag. His Dad and I sat him down to talk and eventually he said he wanted to be a girl. This was completely out of left field as he had never acted feminine or shown interest in feminine things.

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Our degrees in Nursing and Psychology didn't prepare us for this blatant disregard of basic science. […] attempting to find counseling that wasn't affirming or even trying to congratulate us on our "newly awoken daughter". We finally discovered a ROGD support group and found a local psychologist for our son to speak with weekly.

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Should we had been harsher? Taken away all his communication?

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He would see the world is big and wonderful and life was just beginning! Two days later, around one in the morning, I got up to use the bathroom. His bedroom light was on, and I opened the door to turn it off. He was gone. […] His window was open, and he had somehow evaded the front porch camera.

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Both of their children were "different", their daughter even wanted to be a cat. I remember feeling so violated, so sick to my stomach, that two self-proclaimed "Christian" people would find their actions not only acceptable but laudable. I know what hate really is now.

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I tried to fight the school system […] After all, Meghan worked for the system...how is it okay for her to groom an underage child to fool his parents and set up a totally new future? […] I tried the court system. Maybe I could have him declared incompetent? The appointed lawyer for Jake painted a picture of suppression of his feelings and wants, basically saying we were poor parents.

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I haven't been well in a long time. […] I lost 20 pounds. I will admit that I think about just being done with life. [...] Nothing changes and the little boy in the pictures on my walls and on my phone keeps smiling. And a piece of me dies each day.