At just three years old,
Aly McGarrity was a tomboy who would rather be outside playing football with
the boys, while her older brother Russie, then five, enjoyed playing dress up
with the girls.
The brother and sister have
swapped genders after they came out to their parents as transgender just a
month apart.
Their Beth told Good House-keeping
at high school, Russie was bullied by his peers but refused to bow to pressure
to conform and adopted an androgynous look. He told his parents
I would rather be hated for
who I am than loved for who I am not, ''I did not choose this for myself, ''I
wish there was a way that I could not be this way.'
Mrs McGarrity says she
always knew her children were a little different. But she, and her husband
Russ, became worried about their son who slowly spiralled into depression.
Mrs McGarrity said his
school struggled to understand Russie's struggle and even threatened to expel
him after he ran into the girl's toilets.
Russie..Before and after
While the family were
concerned with Rusie's struggle, unbeknownst to anyone, his sister was also
struggling with her own identity. it was Aly who took the brave step to come
out to her parents first.
Just a few days before her
15th birthday, she broke the news to her brother that she was transgender. Then,
with Russie at her side, she broke the news to her mum.
'I've figured out what's
going on with me, 'I know that I'm transgender. I've always wanted to be a boy.
I never told you this, but when I was little, I would go to sleep and wish that
I'd wake up a boy.
'Every time we did the
wishbone at Thanksgiving and I won, I would wish that I was a boy.'
Aly before and after
A month later, Russie confessed that he too
was transgender and both siblings, after receiving counselling, have decided to
go ahead with gender reassignment surgery.
Today Russie, 20, is known
as Rai, while Aly, 17, goes by the name Gavin.
But their parents said
nothing had changed as far as how much they love their children.
Culled from Mail online
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