Interviews with twenty-four mothers who discuss their experience of having a lesbian daughter or FTM transgender son.

Introduction -- Devastation -- 1. Hannah: That child always gave me trouble -- 2. Edie: I hate myself for how I behaved -- 3. Sara: She wasn't going to be the nice little Lesbian I hoped she would be -- 4. Karen: Gay was a piece of cake -- 5. Anna: Why would you want to be a white male? -- Loss -- 6. Elise: She's a Guy now --7. Mariam: All those weddings, all those showers -- 8. Jenny: He's gonna lose everything except his parents -- 9. Lisa: I miss the person he was when he was a she -- Adolescence -- 10. Debra: I felt helpless as a mother -- 11. Rina: Mom, that's me, I am a boy, inside I am a boy -- 12. Beth: I just don't like labels -- Not the only issue -- 13. Lila: I regret the kind of mother I was -- 14. Fran: She took me on a ride I wasn't prepared for -- 15. Naomi: Parents do leave kids on hilsides -- 16. Cheryl: Her Lesbianism is third in line -- Connection -- 17. Shirley: God, watch over her for me, everyday -- 18. Lois: Whatever kind of relationship he wants to have, we will have -- 19. Eleanor: If you can't be supportive, don't be around -- 20. Annemarie: You can't hide a baby -- 21. Lillian: My child is not an abomination -- Activism -- 22. Marie: She made me more of a person -- 23. Judith: I have a much happier son than I ever did a daughter -- 24. Martha: Just expect to see somebody that looks like your former daughter's twin brother -- Appendices.