Storytelling: Inside out: Transgender stories: Boy with Microcephaly

{quote}People have problems with your pronouns who don’t know you,{quote} says RJ Byrne, 22 of Portland. Byrne says often the mothers of transgender people have a particularly difficult time using a different pronoun {quote}because their mom birthed them. But if my mom can do it, then anyone can do it.{quote}Kristyna Wentz-Graff/Staff
Boy with Microcephaly

"People have problems with your pronouns who don’t know you," says RJ Byrne, 22 of Portland. Byrne says often the mothers of transgender people have a particularly difficult time using a different pronoun "because their mom birthed them. But if my mom can do it, then anyone can do it."

Kristyna Wentz-Graff/Staff