When Your Daughter Becomes Your Son

Cosmopolitain.com produced a fantastic video called “Mom, I’m Not a Girl” and we couldn’t wait to share it with you. The 7 minute documentary profiles Brooklyn mother of five Jodie Peterson and her son Penelope who started showing signs of being transgendered at a really young age. Peterson tells Cosmo sharing this story was important. “People are dying over it,” she says. “Until that changes, it’s important to speak out. All the evils — racism, genderism, all the isms — rely on silence. So in order to push social change, we need to speak up.”​