My child came out as trans – then I realised I was a lesbian

Edwina already had more courage than anyone I knew (Picture: Joshua Morris) ‘Let’s play mums and mums,’ my child Edwina said as she shoved the baby doll up my shirt. ‘Don’t you mean mums and dads?’ I questioned. ‘No,’ she said confidently with a certain sense of conviction I didn’t yet recognise. Aged only three in 2018 Edwina was starting to question the rules she had inherited about gender,…