User:Geo Swan/Amanda Jetté Knox
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Amanda Jetté Knox | |
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| Nationality | Canada |
| Occupation | writer |
| Known for | LGBTQ activist |
Amanda Jetté Knox is a Canadian LGBTQ activist and writer.[1] Chatelaine magazine named her their woman of the year, for 2019, after her memoir, Love Lives Here, about "thriving as a trans family" spent two months on Canada's best-selling list.[2]
In 2014 one of Knox's three children, her eleven year old, informed her that they wanted to self-identify as female.[1][3] That same week, after 18 years of marriage, Knox's spouse informed her that they also self-identified as female.
Knox has described her spouse's transition as saving their marriage.[4] She has described the transitionings as making her family stronger.
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"What Amanda Jetté Knox learned from raising her transgender child". CBC Radio. 2019-07-26. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
But a lot has changed since. In 2014, her then 11-year-old daughter, Alexis, came out as trans. Then, her spouse also transitioned. She told us that story in an award-winning Day 6 documentary.
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Martha Beach (2019-11-20). "Woman of the Year 2019: Amanda Jetté Knox". Chatelaine magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
After one of Jetté Knox's kids and her spouse came out as transgender within a year of one another, she found a new purpose: to normalize queer lives, transitions and people being their authentic selves.
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Amanda Jetté Knox (2019-12-10). "My Daughter Came Out As Trans, And It Saved My Marriage: Two weddings and two gender transitions make for one happy family". Chatelaine magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
But on a frigid February night in 2014, an email arrived from our 11-year-old, who we knew then as our middle son. "'Please try to understand,' the message read. 'I am a girl trapped in a boy's body. More than anything, I need to be a girl. Please help me.'
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Nicole Bogart (2019-08-02). "What a transgender daughter, spouse taught this Canadian woman about family". CTV News. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
But, after months of therapy, talking, and what Knox described as a lot of self-care, her family emerged from both transitions stronger than ever.
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