Why my driver's license lies

I turned 23 years old yesterday. Well, legally, at any rate. But I am absolutely not a grownup and this is why:

1) I've spent the last few weeks trying to arrange my schedule so that I'll have a full day at home to wear a homemade toga

2) A good friend and I had a dinosaur fight at my party yesterday

3) I read Calvin and Hobbes comics all day today

4) I got totally psyched and forgot about my task of buying thank-you cards when I realized that the pharmacy sold dinosaur stickers and that my life could not continue if I didn't own said stickers

5) I've been practically living in the children's section of any bookstore I visit

6) I freaked out when Significant Other was over the other night when I thought I heard velociraptors down the street

7) In a totally separate incident, I freaked out on Significant Other because I thought I heard a tyrannosaur down the street

8) I am just waiting for the monsters in my closet to get me

9) I got ice cream and refused to share it with anyone

10) I sleep with two dollar-store baby dolls that have been painted as a cyborg and a devil, who I have named Betty and Chloe, and who I blatantly refuse to part with

11) I sleep with my TV on because monsters shrivel up and die when light touches them

12) I take frequent naps

13) It's not even 9:00 and I'm already getting drowsy and cranky. It's clearly past my bedtime.

A flaw in the literature system

Why is it that there are no children's books about transgender parents?

I'm not talking about teen/adolescent/young adult lit. There are more of those that touch on and/or address transgender parents than I can count. But I've been scouring the internet for days on end, trying to find books directed at young children that address transgender parents.

I've found some good ones dealing with gay and lesbian parents (the most well-known being Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy's Roommate and And Tango Makes Three. All are very well written and have been enjoyable to me since I was finally able to lay hands on them once I got to college and it dawned on me that the real world does, in fact, include LGBT people, and that I was one of them).

Family is one of the most important things in the world to me. Whether I wind up married or not, to a man or a woman or someone off the spectrum, I intend to have children.

If I wind up single and adopting/artificially inseminating/somehow getting children, then any children's books I own about gay parents will most likely be useless in relation to our specific family.

If I wind up married/committed or whatever, and my partner and I have children, any children's books I own on lesbian parents will be useless in relation to our specific family.

*However, if I mary/commit to a man, any books I own on gay male parents WILL be useful.

BUT...

Regardless of who I wind up committed to, if I do wind up committed to someone, what resources will my young children have? It's difficult (and pointless) to keep a secret from my child(ren). What good would come of claiming to be biologically male? My family is huge and gossipy and the so-called "secret" couldn't be kept for more than thirty seconds.

My children WILL know that I am trans.

But how can I show my young future-children that they are not alone in having a transgender parent (specifically a female-to-male transgender father)? As far as I've discovered, there are a grand total of zero--at the most--publications for young children on this subject.

I would love to read my kid a bedtime story that starts out, "Bobby's daddy wasn't always a boy..." or "Mary is from an unusual family, because her daddy was born a little girl, like her..."

So what do I do?

You tell me.