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This week’s episode of In the Den kicks off a new series! There are similarities and differences between all of our individual stories. We come from diverse religious backgrounds, political parties, family dynamics, and geographic areas. Each of us started at different levels of acceptance, but we all relate to the desire of wanting to protect our children over our own biases. So a few times a year, we will be sharing a Mama Dragon’s story. Today, we meet Jasmine. 

Special Guest: Jasmine

Jasmine grew up in California at a time when being gay was illegal.  Her very conservative family made it very clear that there were “normal” people and “sinful” people, who were to be shunned and avoided, if not treated more harshly.  As a very small child she knew she was different but felt her difference was even worse than being gay.   So she spent decades trying to hide and ignore this reality that the world was not ready to accept. All of this dramatically changed about 5 years ago when one of her children came out to her wife as trans.  Fortunately, Jasmine and her wife had grown past a lot of the closed-minded bigotry they had been raised with, and they both loved their children very much.  Even though this went against their religious beliefs they knew they were not going to reject their children.  But accepting their child as trans also meant accepting that trans was valid.  For Jasmine, this brought to the surface all of the decades of pretending.  At the time she knew very little about any LGBTQ topics, but that was about to change.

Links from the Show:

• Jasmine’s story on the Mama Dragon blog: https://www.mamadragons.org/post/taught-by-our-children-1 
• Jasmine’s blog: www.j616.org 
• Join Mama Dragons today: www.mamadragons.org 
• Mama Dragons on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mamadragons 
• Mama Dragons on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themamadragons/ 

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