Brief Summary: Wyatt's Life
After years of treatment of infertility, the American couple Kelly and Wayne finally decided to adopt a pair of twins (initially named Wyatt and Jonas) from a sixteen-year olds who didn’t want to have abortion in 1997. Even though identical in their physical appearance, Wyatt’s personality seemed to diverge from that of Jonas at a very young age: as they grew into toddlers (from age 4 to 7), Wyatt was mesmerized by girly features like Barbie dolls and colorful dresses while Jonas was interested in masculine things like car models (Nutt 23). As Wyatt becoming older, he become more self-aware that he really wanted to be a girl and started to encounter fear and confusion when his dad Wayne couldn’t understand his girly behavior and habits (Nutt
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The author then described a major transition in Wyatt’s life in 2006, when he became Dr. Spack’s first transgender pediatric patient: he passed the psychological tests and would officially began the “12-16-18” program in which puberty suppressants were used to prevent him from becoming an adult male (Nutt 107). He also officially changed his name from Wyatt to Nichole in the court in the same year (Nutt 116). However, new adversary arrived during Nichole’s fifth grade when a male student named Jacob walking into girl’s bathroom, claiming that since Nichole was physically a boy and could use the female’s bathroom, potentially any boy could enter the female bathroom (Nutt 124). This finally ended up into a public vote (2008) in front of Oronto town hall, where citizens would vote either yes or no for the question that whether a twelve-year-old boy who identified himself as a girl be allowed to use the girl’s bathroom in school. Even though 80 percent of the voters disagreed to the statement, Nichole’s family gained public sympathy and attention (Nutt 147). From then on, Nichole and her family had never stopped to defend her rights as a transgender person, to change people’s ideas about transgender issues and to force schools to rewrite their rules (Nutt
The author then described a major transition in Wyatt’s life in 2006, when he became Dr. Spack’s first transgender pediatric patient: he passed the psychological tests and would officially began the “12-16-18” program in which puberty suppressants were used to prevent him from becoming an adult male (Nutt 107). He also officially changed his name from Wyatt to Nichole in the court in the same year (Nutt 116). However, new adversary arrived during Nichole’s fifth grade when a male student named Jacob walking into girl’s bathroom, claiming that since Nichole was physically a boy and could use the female’s bathroom, potentially any boy could enter the female bathroom (Nutt 124). This finally ended up into a public vote (2008) in front of Oronto town hall, where citizens would vote either yes or no for the question that whether a twelve-year-old boy who identified himself as a girl be allowed to use the girl’s bathroom in school. Even though 80 percent of the voters disagreed to the statement, Nichole’s family gained public sympathy and attention (Nutt 147). From then on, Nichole and her family had never stopped to defend her rights as a transgender person, to change people’s ideas about transgender issues and to force schools to rewrite their rules (Nutt