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Her mistakes as an adult are her's to own. Your biggest battle will be to stop her from committing to a second permanent action after she realizes her transition helped her not one bit of a buffalo nickel to feel better about herself.

I've witnessed this timeline recur countless times before, and with no need to lay claim to a psychic ability, realize I'll never stop seeing it regularly again over the next 50 years. So one bit of advice from the trenches:

Start looking for a respectable therapist you feel you trust for the aftermarket effects of her journey, and make sure they're experienced in CBT training to actively retrain her mind to handle the lost sense of self she'll be feeling. It's going to take her learning an entirely new set of social dynamics just to navigate the different world she'll need to reintegrate into.

And if you go ballistic with anger once it hits you just how difficult this is going to be, my favorite advice is to track down that boy who scarred her and commit yourself to some reciprocity. I admire parents of real action more than the pacifists.

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