Found in Transition

A Mother's Evolution During Her Child's Gender Change

By: Paria Hassouri MD

Narrated by: Siiri Scott

What do you do when, just before Thanksgiving at your mother's, your 14-year-old son asks you to iron the dress he recently purchased and plans to wear? Listeners learn the answer and much more in this wonderfully frank, loving, and practical account of parenting a transgender teen.

Paria Hassouri chronicles what amounts to a dual transition: as her child transitions from male to female, she navigates through anger, denial, and grief to eventually arrive at acceptance. Despite her experience advising other parents in her work as a pediatrician, she was blindsided by her child's gender identity. Her journey forces her to reckon with how her own childhood as a brown kid in a white world led her to sometimes parent with fear rather than love. Hassouri discovers her capacity to evolve, as well as what it really means to parent and the deepest nature of unconditional love.

At its heart, Found in Transition is a universally inspiring portrait of what it means to be a family.

©2020 Paria Hassouri (P)2020 Tantor

Truthful

I'm a Trans Woman. I had some difficulty in the early part of the book due to No.s word choices and attitude. I'm glad I kept listening because I come from a family that struggles with my gender identity. This book gave me insight from the perspective of a skeptical of non understanding Caregivers. I was able to make a call to someone who struggles and start an unlocking conversation. It also helped me understand the view of my journey from my families eyes. I'm able to start the process of letting the why go.

I appreciate the writers truthfulness which was cleansing for me with my not so distant past.

Paris Hassouri is an asset for our community and her daughter is wonderful, strong, courageous and Beautiful.

I definitely Recommend giving Found In Transition a listen and please use it a a resource.

A book on transition and motherhood. A book on life.

Honest, brave, touching and deep story on motherhood, acceptance of life, choices, transforms and growth. Needed book, as it sheds light on the transgender experience, which many of us may not experience in any way. Stories change the world and allows us to step into the shoes of others. Thank you for sharing the stories of your daughter, your family and your own story! It is empowering!

wow!

such an eye opener. made some amazing points and really helped me through my child's transition.

Thank you

As a mom of a transgender daughter, this story couldn’t have been more parallel to her story and the struggles my husband and other daughter are having towards her transformation. I am so grateful for this book was suggested to me and have since suggested it to many counselors. It has reaffirmed my need to move this process along for our daughter, knowing that we are harming her more by not doing so. Paria, thank you. I’m glad I had you as part of our journey and hope that this book will help my his move forward in his understanding. It is wonderful how accepting and loving you are as a family. Forever grateful

Touching

This mother's frank and touching memoir was very helpful in giving me perspective in my personal journey.

Beautifully written and read

I had to write a review after I read one review that complained that this story did not tell the child’s point of view and what she went through. I chose this book not because I have any experience with the trans community. I do not know anyone or have a child that is trans. But I am a mother that is always interested in other parents stories. This book is presented as a mother’s story and that is exactly what it is. The author does an amazing job of telling the families journey. I sympathize, just as any mother would do with her child going through anything. But now I have a whole new respect for anyone that is in the trans community and what they are going through. I am grateful that this world is starting to except this as a real truth. Ava is a very lucky girl.

Someone else felt the same

This really helped me to not feel alone in my feelings regarding my daughter. It helped me to see things in perspective.

Amazing

Thank you for being so honest about everything you felt and went through. Reading this book made me realize I was not alone in how I had felt or am feeling.

Exactly what I need to hear- someone else’s experience

Very well written, you get to hear the inner workings of a loving mom’s thoughts as she grapples with the news of having a trans child, followed by all the back and forth thoughts a parent goes through.

I resonated with many of the same thoughts and felt comforted to know I wasn’t alone.

Great writing

Honest and vulnerable, funny and sad. A great read. I would highly recommend it, especially for parents of trans or questioning teens.