'I made sure to tell my story, not my child's story,' author Jodie Patterson said. 'This is really a book about a woman, this woman, this cisgender woman, with all this privilege that I didn't know much about, transforming from not knowing to knowing.”
“It’s striking and it stops you in your tracks, and you don't know what it means,” she said. Patterson considered whether Penelope was a feminist or was trying to be seen as tough. At age three, Penelope had been acting out for two years, showing anger and sadness by fighting and bullying other kids, crying, screaming, bedwetting, nail-biting to the point of bleeding and suffering recurring nightmares.
Through her own research, Patterson began to learn about gender variance and developed an understanding of what her son was going through. At the time, even the word “transgender” was foreign to her. "That was a lot of the feedback that we received: Penelope's too young to know about sexuality… Black children aren't transgender… God doesn't allow for this,” Patterson remembered.
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