[News] [NC, USA] Mother Of Transgender Child Fears Amendment One

[Stephanie Stevens]

WITN, NC, USA


Posted: Mon 8:44 AM, May 07, 2012
Updated: Mon 10:24 AM, May 07, 2012

Mother Of Transgender Child Fears Amendment One

Reporter: Kelsie Smith


Alice Walz is a mother of three children: two boys and a girl. Her
daughter, however, was born a boy named Brogan. Around age 3, Brogan
started saying that he was really a girl. Walz thought it was a phase
her child would pass through, but it didn't. Over the years, Walz let
her child act like a girl at home, but to everyone else, it was
Brogan.

That changed when an assignment in second grade split the class
between boys and girls. Brogan refused to work on the boy assignment,
Walz said, and announced in front of the class, "Everyone might as
well know that I'm really a girl."

Walz says a doctor evaluated Brogan, determined he was transgender and
encouraged Walz to let her child live as the person he felt he was on
the inside. That's when Brogan chose a new name to live as a girl:
Summer.

Walz wants her daughter to be accepted in society, but she worries
Amendment One will create a long road of unacceptance. Since Summer's
birth certificate says she was born a boy, Walz is concerned she won't
be able to marry some day.

"I really hope that these people that are dead set on voting for this
realize that they are going to harm an eight-year-old innocent child,"
Walz said.

Regardless of the outcome on May 8, Walz says she will do everything
in her power to continue to make sure Summer lives a happy life.


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