Ursula Meyer, head of Graduate Acting at UC San Diego, recounts the gifts of life with a creative mother and the clear path to teaching that opened before her. When she and her husband found themselves on the path to adoption, a conversation with a theatre friend led them to their child. Through years of teaching and single parenting while her actor husband was on the road to the moment her child came out as transgender, Ursula's story affirms, as Shakespeare said, "There is no jewel in the world so prized as a mother's love".

Ursula's Ted Talk: Shakespeare Plays With Words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eseWDHXkvPw

UCSD Department of Theatre and Dance

https://theatre.ucsd.edu/

Adoption Support Resources:

https://resolve.org/

Trans Family Support

https://thecentersd.org/

https://transfamilysos.org/

Ursula's Book Recs:

The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals by Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper

The Transgender Teen by Stephanie Brill and Lisa Kenney

This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel

Found in Transition by Paria Hassouri

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

Conundrum by Jan Morris