Last summer 6-year-old Scarlett had the worst experience of her life at day camp: Her best friend told the other girls that Scarlett has a penis.
"Our daughter was going to an all-girls camp in stealth and hadn't told anyone that she was born a boy," Sandra Collins tells me. "Full of anticipation to meet her best friend, she left that day brimming with joy and excitement, only to return home in tears. She cried for hours, vowing never to return to camp, because in a moment of anger at being left out of a game, Scarlett's best friend had told the other girls that our daughter was in fact a biological male."
Amazingly, the little girl had enough inner resilience to return to camp the next day and finish out the rest of the week. But it was the genesis of the day camp that Sandra is launching in California this summer: the Bay Area Rainbow Day Camp for transgender and gender-non-binary youths, of which she is Executive Director.
[For more of this story, written by Juliet Linley, go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...f=community-kindness]
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