Personal Narrative: My Interview With Delaney Pearson

I interviewed a woman named Delaney Pearson. Pearson is a PhD student at Indiana University who has a transgender daughter, Savannah, who is 5 ½ years old. The interview took place at Pearson’s home on June 12th at 6:00 p.m. and lasted for 30 minutes. I chose to interview with Pearson because she is a parent of a young child who has been transitioning to be a girl since she was 2 years old. My conversation with Pearson revealed the journey of transitioning to the other sex at a young age, and how teachers can make the journey more supportive and positive for the transgender child, their parents, and their classmates.
The most significant thing from this interview was how Pearson explained who her transgender daughter is and a way to think about for
Having a supportive environment not only benefits transgender students, but students that are a minority in either their race, religion, sexual orientation, family-income status, etc. Pearson explained how Savannah’s preschool teachers accepted her as she was and made sure the other classmates would as well. Even though Karen Wohlwend discusses more about gender in her article, her claims could also relate to transgender students and teachers making sure to have a supportive environment for the future. In her article, she mentions that “teachers who seeks to honor children’s disruption of gender roles, and at the same time, protect them from real or anticipated harm from peers or society” (p. 8). Honoring the disruption of gender roles and protecting the students from their peers or society is something that can relate to transgender people. Honoring the disruption of the assigned gender and having a supportive and accepting background can help limit the harm from