I've forgotten about being pushed down the stairs, the stuff that he tried to get me to do in the bedroom, that sexual abuse.

Trying to coerce me into acting like we're lesbians, him dressing up as a woman.

In 2010, the kids were ordered and told they could no longer call their father dad.

When we hear about transgenderism, which these days would appear to be all the time,

it's almost always from the perspective of the transgender person, the person who feels that he is the opposite sex,

what it means to be liberated from the shackles of oppression or whatever.

Sometimes we hear about transgenderism from the perspective of a child.

Though in that case, it's also often, ostensibly, from the perspective of a transgender person,

the trans child who is coming to grips with his true identity and transitioning.

There is one group of people whose perspective we never hear about.

We talk about transgenderism and that would be the women who are abandoned by their husbands,

husbands who leave their families to pursue the transgender identity.

I am joined by one such trans widow, Tracy Shannon.

Tracy, thank you for being here.

Thank you for having me.

Tracy, let's just start from the beginning.

What happened?

I guess if we're starting from the beginning, we'd have to go back to early in my marriage to my first husband,

and it became apparent that he had an issue across dressing.

So at some point, right after the birth of our first child, my baby was in the hospital,

and my husband came to see us and informed me that he had an issue across dressing.

It was more than just what I had noticed in the first four years of our marriage,

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