As his trans daughter struggles, a father pushes past his prejudice. ‘It was like a wake-up’

 As his trans daughter struggles, a father pushes past his prejudice. ‘It was like a wake-up’

"Before his transgender daughter was suspended after using the girls’ bathroom at her Missouri high school. Before the bullying and the suicide attempts. Before she dropped out.

Before all that, Dusty Farr was — in his own words — “a full-on bigot.” By which he meant that he was eager to steer clear of anyone LGBTQ+.

Now, though, after everything, he says he wouldn’t much care if his 16-year-old daughter — and he proudly calls her that — told him she was an alien. Because she is alive."

Job interviews that end within seconds of hearing her voice. A gay family friend telling her she should tone it down. Sitting on the front steps, smoking - a passerby pissed off by her simply being and was throwing rocks across the street at her.  Questioning how someone living authentically would have trouble finding a job. 

There needs to be more Dusty Farr's in this world.