She was also worried about where or not her daughter/son wants a sex change. She read many men didn’t want it because they could lose sensation. Tina was also thinking about top surgery, that seemed painful and Tina had seen photos. The scars were big and very noticeable Tina thought. She was also wondering if Marie/Mario would begin to train to get muscles. That would be scary. And it would be a big change if her daughter/son would have a lower voice and facial hair. Tina shook her head. That was still a long time.

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Tina walked into Marie/Mario’s school building and her eyes were immediately drawn to Bette again. The brown-haired woman looked up and smiled a killer smile at Tina that made her shiver. Tina swallowed and walked over at the woman that had slowly invaded her dreams.

“Hello, Ms. Kennard, nice to see you again.” Bette said.

“Nice to see you to. Call me Tina, please.” Tina told her. Bette nodded.

“Okay, Tina. Call me Bette.” She said. Tina shyly smiled.

“Sure.”

“You can go in, he is free.” Bette said.

“Okay, thanks.” Tina said. They smiled at each other, Tina felt that weird feeling again and then walked to the door, knocked and entered. After all the formalities, Tina sat down on the chair.

“You wanted to talk to me, Ms. Kennard?”    

“Yes, I went to a psychiatrist with my child and he told me that my daughter is transgender.” Tina said and placed the papers on the director’s desk.

Mr. Charles looked at them and then cleared his throat. “Dr. Foxworthy? That’s a good one. Well, then we’ll have to make some rules and things I think will make Mario’s life better.” The director said. Tina nodded.

“Tell me what you think is good for Mario and then I can say which I think are good and which are not.” Tina suggested.

“Okay, then, I think it’s a good idea if Mario will change with the boys although I think we should place him apart when he is older because he’ll probably begin to change during puberty and I didn’t think he wants the boys to see that. I also think that whenever someone calls him with his female name, she, sorry, I mean he should tell that to his teacher and then we can have a talk with the kid in question. I’ll also allow that he can dress in boys clothes and act like the boy he is. If he gets physically abused by anyone, he should also report that although that is a general rule for any child attending this school.” The principal said.

“Well, that all sounds good but I want to have a talk about my son’s teacher, Ms. Buckley. Mario told me she told him to stop acting like a boy because he is not. He had to stop doing gel in his hair while the other boys could continue doing it. She also keeps calling my son Marie which my son and I are not okay with. She said to my son that he is confused. If this doesn’t change, I want my son in another class.” Tina said, she wasn’t going to stand by when her son/daughter was being bullied by her/his own teacher.

“Not so fast, Ms. I’ll talk to Ms. Buckley and tell her that what she is doing is not appropriate. Maybe, if you don’t have to be anywhere, we can call Ms. Buckley here and talk to her together. Maybe that’ll have more impact. What do you think?” He asked.

Tina smiled. “That sounds okay.”

Just then, the bell signal went off and the principal called Ms. Buckley into his office…

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