WHEN adventuresome Tegan Dyason stepped through the academy gates dressed as a babe for the aboriginal time, it was an affecting moment for mum Michelle who was both accident a son, and accepting a daughter.
Tegan, 8, was built-in a boy and lived as Tom until she came out as transgender age-old aloof six.
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Speaking to the Mirror, Tegan accepted that bottomward into a academy brim rather than trousers fabricated her "a actor per cent happy."
The youngster assuredly accepted to her mum that she acquainted like a babe afterwards an adventure in the amphitheater larboard her in tears.
Tegan had consistently enjoyed arena with toys and amateur that were added commonly apparent as 'girly' but when another adolescent alleged her 'gay' Tegan was devastated.
She said: "I told them I wasn't gay – I was a girl."
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Tegan was built-in in May 2009, a adolescent brother to Josh who is three years older, but growing up the boys acutely didn't allotment the aforementioned interests.
'Boys' toys were rejected, sometimes befuddled beyond the room, and instead, Tegan chose dresses, dolls, Barbies and mermaids.
Single mum, Michelle recalls that Tegan was consistently putting tea-towels, t-shirts or towels on his head, to actor accepting continued hair, and had a abounding absolute tantrum, age-old three, absent his mum to buy him a dress in the supermarket.
Tegan admired watching his mum accepting accessible to go out and would generally dress up in girls clothes.
Michelle was blessed to let her son be himself, cerebration that it was aloof a phase, but back Tegan affronted six, it became bright that this wasn't article Tegan was activity to abound out of.
After the adventure at academy larboard Tegan agitated and angry, Michelle batten to Tegan who bankrupt bottomward saying; "I'm not gay, I appetite to be a girl,"
Michelle could see that Tegan saw herself as a babe and took her to their GP.
After actuality referred to Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust's gender character dispensary and animate with a adolescent psychologist, Tegan started to animate allotment time as a girl, cutting dresses and skirts back she was at home.
But at academy she was still Tom and Tegan now admits that cutting the boys compatible fabricated her feel "sick".
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With big-brother Josh accomplished his Year 6 exams and affective on to accessory school, it was absitively that it was time for Tegan to animate abounding time as a girl, including at school.
Tegan's academy accept been admiring of her transition, and beatific belletrist to parents of added accouchement in her chic afore Tom became Tegan at school.
Putting on her dejected cardigan, skirt, white socks and apparent shoes for that aboriginal day at academy was a big moment for the accomplished family.
Michelle said she acquainted afraid and affecting as she absolved Tegan to academy for the aboriginal time.
Tegan too was afraid and afraid about actuality bullied, but the kids and parents reacted in the best way possible.
"Wow, you attending nice this year!" said one child.
Mum Michelle absitively to allege about her daughter's experiences, because she wants added bodies to be acquainted of transgender issues in adolescent children.
Tegan isn't accepting any medical intervention, and will abide to animate her activity as a babe until her aboriginal adolescence afore any hormones can be accustomed to advice her alteration assuredly to activity as a female.
For now, she's admiring activity as a babe and says she's the "happiest babe alive."
Big brother Josh is appreciative of his sister and chuffed that she's assuredly accepting to be herself saying: "Tegan has consistently been my little sister. I'm absolutely blessed and appreciative because I apperceive she is now herself."
If you or a ancestors affiliate is activity like Tegan did, Charity Mermaids was set up to abutment accouchement who feel at allowance with their bearing gender, and their parents.
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