Meeting Robyn

By Gloria Parker

Subjects: Attitudes, Families, Family, Mothers, Family relationships, Social conditions, Transgender children

Description: "Meeting Robyn is the powerful, true story of a young mother raised in a traditional household, and her struggle to accept her only child's confusion with his sexual identity. Compounding the problem, Gloria, his mother, has her own conflicts. Does she live the conventional life of her family tradition or pursue her dreams of an acting career? Her little boy, Robert, haunted by urges that are decidedly female, feels trapped in his male body. Forced to conceal his inner torment, Robert endures pain and isolation, as he ultimately becomes Robyn, finding at last, his /her true identity"--Page 4 of cover.