What Moms of Transgender People Want You to Know with Lisa McCourt

There is a lot of hate to go around these days and there seems to be a lot directed at the transgender community. There is so much misinformation and fear mongering going on. People seem to think that kids are having gender reassignment surgery at school and that their own lives are somehow threatened by someone who has the courage to try to live as authentically as they can. I invited Lisa McCourt on today- she is an author and podcaster as well as the mom of a transgender daughter. She’s going to dispel some myths and set the record straight. According to a recent Pew Research Study about 5% of young adults in the US say their gender is different from their sex assigned at birth. This study was from 2022, and the number is growing. A rising number of Americans say they know someone who is transgender and 5.1% of adults younger than 30 identify as trans or nonbinary. Gender-nonconforming people have always been here and aren’t going anywhere. Denying them rights doesn’t deny their existence. Surveys have shown that transgender adults make up about 1% of the U.S. population  These people aren’t going away and yet the amount of hate and disinformation that is being spread about them continues to grow. I personally know a few people who are moms to transgender kids, actually both of the people I know their kids are now adults in their 20’s and 30’s. Lisa shares her story and dispels some myths about transgender people. Lisa McCourt is a bestselling author of more than 40 books for adults and children, the creator of the online Joy School and a podcast host of Joy Zone with Lisa McCourt on the MindBodySpirit.fm podcast network. She is also the mother of a transgender child and President of her PFLAG chapter in Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices