Our Family Values:
Integrity & Honesty
Health & Safety
Growth & Learning
Love & Protect Young People
We honor transgender stories & voices
We know all of us have grown up in a transphobic and homophobic society and commit to unlearning those patterns.
We know transgender wellbeing is an indicator of social wellbeing.
We know transgender leadership is at the forefront of the change this world needs.
We know embracing gender expansive self-expression creates room for everyone’s expansiveness and self-expression.
We know the integrity and courage required of transgender people is a model for all of us.
We are grateful to the generations of transgender people who have shared their experiences so we can be better family members and allies to the transgender people we care for.
Although this group serves mainly cisgender parents, we center transgender experiences when learning to support our kids.
We believe children
We believe children should be trusted, respected, and allowed abundant space to create.
We trust our children to be honest with us and we respect them by practicing relational integrity.
We honor bodily autonomy and healthy boundaries as a practice.
As supportive parents we work to provide information and opportunities for our children to grow- across the gender spectrum.
We priorities our childrens’ mental and physical wellbeing, health, and safety above all.
We know our children will walk different paths than we walked- and that is healthy.
We believe in science, and humbly admit the limitations of our own knowledge.
We are discerning and intentional as we grow our knowledge.
We actively create a better world for trans people.
For far too long transgender individuals have been ostracized, betrayed and neglected by their own families.
For far too long transgender and nonbinary people have been harmed by their own parents’ transphobia, homophobia, and misinformation.
For far too long transgender and nonbinary people have suffered harm at the hands of religious, educational, and community institutions.
We will not stand by as the harm of our transgender community members continues.
We are active in creating change for our kids and for the transgender and nonbinary community as a whole.
We Believe this world needs Healthy Parenting
We accept that parenting is an evolving process and practice deep compassion and personal accountability as we grow.
We know parenting is often the most challenging job any adult will ever do.
We trust every parent is doing the best they can for their children.
We know most of us learned to be parents from parents who were less than perfect.
We believe all parents are healing intergenerational and ancestral trauma- even when we don’t realize it.
We honor mistake-making as an integral part of learning and growth for us and our kids.
We honor relational repair as an essential component of developing trustworthy family relationships.
