{"id":169619,"date":"2015-12-15T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T21:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/?p=169619"},"modified":"2015-12-15T17:29:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T22:29:37","slug":"mother-fixes-tattoo-transgender-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/mother-fixes-tattoo-transgender-son\/","title":{"rendered":"This Mother Found a Gorgeous Way to Fix an Old Tattoo of Her Kids When Her Son Came Out as Trans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Photo: Facebook\/Steve Peace Tattoos<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

There are a lot of reasons people tell us to be wary of having things permanently etched onto our bodies–maybe your flowers will wilt when you get old, maybe the lead singer of that band you love will turn out to be horribly racist in 10 years. The world is a mutable place, and things change. Luckily, tattoos can change too, because one mother wound up needing a bit of a refresher recently when her 15-year-old son told her that he was transgender.<\/p>\n

According to Yahoo Parenting,<\/a> Lindsay Peace had gorgeous, full-color tattoos of her three children drawn on her arm by her husband, tattoo artist Steve Peace. They are bright, colorful, and beautiful tattoos, and she had them for about 10 years. But then her oldest child, 15-year-old Ace, came out as a trans boy, and Lindsay realized that her tattoo did not actually accurately reflect her family.<\/p>\n

In the original tattoo, Ace was depicted as a little blonde girl in a pink dress with a big purple bow. He did not feel like it accurately represented him.<\/p>\n

\u201dI felt it didn\u2019t reflect me very much,\u201d Ace said in an interview\u00a0Global News<\/a>. \u201dIt wasn\u2019t so much our family because that person didn\u2019t exist anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dA lot of trans people don\u2019t like pictures of themselves from their past. That\u2019s one that sort of walked around with us, as a family,\u201d Steve said of the old tattoo. But then he fixed it.<\/p>\n

Without telling Ace of their plans, Lindsay had Steve do some really excellent cover-up work on her tattoo. Now Ace has\u00a0short hair instead of pigtails, and wears a T-shirt and shorts. He has a slingshot tucked into his collar where the bow had been, and he is still blowing the dandelion. It’s really good work! And it’s a great thing for a parent to do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ace did not know his mother was getting her tattoo fixed until she showed him the updated version, and he was utterly thrilled to see his picture had been fixed to show him as a boy.<\/p>\n

\u201dIt made me really happy. I didn\u2019t realize how much she believed me,\u201d he said. \u201dIt finally fits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lindsay and Steve deserve a round of applause for both the very good tattoo work and the excellent parenting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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