A trans man's mom threw him a belated gender reveal party, and these photos are pure joy
As our culture becomes more educated and aware of the complexity and spectrum of gender identities, the traditional pink and blue "gender reveal parties" for infants feel old-fashioned at best, reductive and harmful to trans and non-binary individuals at worst. But what if you could have a belated "gender reveal" party when you finally step into the gender you were meant to be? Adrian Brown, 20, recently came out to his mom as transgender, and in #coolmom news: she organized a gender reveal photoshoot to honor her son.
"The decision to come out was really scary," Brown told NBC News. "The hardest part was coming out to myself, accepting myself and loving myself for who I am."
Brown's mom Heather Lundberg Green knew they needed to celebrate this momentous act of courage, so she organized a cute gender reveal photo shoot that included a fake bump and her adult son swaddled in an "it's a boy" blanket.
"When your child comes out as trans, the best thing to do is create a photoshoot to celebrate the fact that he silently and bravely stepped out of the race that he never wanted to be in, found his own lane and proceeded to win," Green wrote on Facebook. "HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY, Adrian! You are without a doubt the most fascinating human I know and I will always be your biggest fan! I love you, I honor who you are and I respect your courage to be unapologetically you!!"
When your child comes out as trans, the best thing to do is create a photoshoot to celebrate the fact that he silently…
Posted by Heather Lundberg Green on Tuesday, January 29, 2019
"I wanted everyone to know what's going on and that this is how we're handling it. We're going to celebrate it," Green added to NBC News.
So far the post has been shared 16,000 times. Now this is a gender reveal we can get behind.
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