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.

Touching

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

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

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.

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.