The universe is already showing me opportunities for 2024!
I joined a group for transgender parenting recently and today someone posted about a camp for trans kids. They are opening a location nearby! They will need staff and applications open up sometime this month. I am so hopeful that I could get hired for the week of camp. It would be so awesome and so healing to work with these kids.
When I initially read about the opportunity, my heart sank because it said something about experience working with trans kids. I don’t have that. And then it seemed like I forgot about all of my coaching sports because I thought to myself that I have no experience working with kids. Um, no, you have coached 5 times! You’ve got tons of recent experience with kids, although no one that has told me they are trans. But being me, hopefully that will be enough.
Either way, I am planning to apply. If I am not selected, I will know that it was not an opportunity for me and that’s ok. I have felt a pull towards helping trans youth for awhile, but it’s one of those things that I want to be very deliberate and controlled with, since I have no desire to influence anyone or do anything that would make someone conclude that I am a groomer or somehow want to push some sort of trans agenda. I would not push this on anyone. It’s been horrible to deal with and I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. But kids that feel this way…I know I can help them, even if it’s to realize that they are completely happy with their birth gender.
So, that’s my first big adventure of 2024. Well, I guess maybe the second since lacrosse practice starts next week for the spring season!
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