Taking Off the Mask: ‘Erin is a Beautiful Butterfly, Testing Her Wings in what sometimes seems to be an Unforgiving World,’ says Alma Wiebe of Her Transgender Daughter

"Childhood is all about the endless possibilities, the dreams that will come true if you wish hard enough.

Erin Wiebe’s childhood was no different in those ways. She knew if she wished hard enough, the dream of her outside appearance matching the way she saw herself would become a reality. Every night, Erin says she wished she would wake up a girl.

In fact, Erin was born with a gender variance: she is transgender, identifying as female, opposed to the male sex assigned to her at birth ..."