Hi. I'm Nick North,

your friendly neighbourhood TransDad

WHAT IF THE THINGS THAT MADE US DIFFERENT

ALSO MADE US BEAUTIFUL?

Guess what, I believe they do.

Hey, I'm nick.

Aka, Nicholas, Klaus, EpicDanger, or my personal favourite and my Jr High nickname of ‘Myrtle The Turtle’. Yes, I really was that cool—so cool that I actually created the name myself. I know right?

Anyway. I’m a 36 year old transgender man who looks like I might graduate high school this year… or maybe next.

Only recently have I embraced this good genetic fortune. I have yet to embrace the genetics of my hair loss though. #transmanproblems. #giveittime #baldisbeautiful

I have the very best wife, Katherine, and more kids than you can shake a stick at, okay only 5 (ages 6, 7, 11, 12 + 14), but that’s still a lot.

I like them all, you would too.

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I believe that all it takes
to make a family is love,
that every family is different,
and that every family is a 
beautiful family.

Our family has a few things that makes us different.

Nick was assigned female at birth, and carried 4 of our kiddos in his ‘Duderus’ while married to his ex husband Chris.
Katherine had our oldest kiddo while living in Japan, and left during the 2011 earthquakes.
This means we’re a blended family. We don’t use the word ‘step’ in this house. That’s just not who we are.
After 4 years living in the suburbs of Calgary, we decided as a family, ex-husband Chris included, to close down our lives in Alberta and head west with our big queer blended family to the Southern Gulf Islands.
We live on just under an acre of temperate rainforest, in a 1200 sq foot house, a 4 minute walk to the beach.
Chris stays in a 100 sq foot tiny house here on our property.

MY ORIGIN STORY

Age 16

I CUT MY HAIR SHORT, WAS CALLED A “BOY WITH SPUNK” AT CHURCH AND WONDERED IF EVERYONE KNEW MY SECRET - THAT I WASN’T REALLY A GIRL.

AGES 20-29

GREW LONG HAIR, READ ALL THE MOM BOOKS, BIRTHED 4 CHILDREN, AND ACQUIRED A DEEP PIT OF DESPAIR IN THE DEPTHS OF MY SOUL.

AGE 31

ACTUALLY, I’M A MAN. ACKNOWLEDGING THAT TRUTH FEELS LIKE PURE OXYGEN TO MY STARVED LUNGS. SO MUCH THERAPY. TRANSITION BEGINS.

Age 6

I SAT ON THE STAIRS OF MY HOUSE, HOT TEARS ON MY FACE, BURNING IN MY CHEST, “WHY CAN’T I JUST BE A BOY LIKE ALL THE OTHER BOYS?”

AGE 19

GOT MARRIED TO MY BEST FRIEND AND MESSILY (AS IS SEEMINGLY THE ONLY WAY) LEFT THE CHURCH TOGETHER.

Age 30

TURNS OUT I’M GAY. GET DIVORCED. MARRY BEST FRIEND AND ACQUIRE 5TH CHILD (SHE’S A REAL KEEPER).

AGE 35

LIVING MY BEST LIFE AS A CHICKEN FARMER ON SALT SPRING ISLAND.

DEEP DIVE

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Thoughts, Musings, Tips + Tricks From Our LGBTQ Family

#AWKWARDAF AKA WHY I LOVED MIDDLE SCHOOL

HERE WE ARE.

Standing in a room full of awkward, lanky, super rad middle schoolers. It brings me right back to my own middle school experience. Grade 7 and 8 were two of the best years of my entire life. I think I liked middle school so much mostly because EVERYONE felt shitty in their own skin for this one window of time.

MOSTLY I FORGET

EVERY FRIDAY

I plunge this badboy into some muscle on my body. Except that mostly I forget. BRAINS ARE FUNNY, RIGHT? When I first started taking testosterone I counted down the hours until my next weekly shot. I painstakingly obsessed that not a drop was wasted. And now... now I kinda dread it.

LITTLE LAD

“TICKLEY TICKLEY ROUND YOUR TUMMY,”

She would whisper in a sing song tone as she traced her fingers across my stomach. The two of us snuggled up on her couch. “We Yike, jeopardy, don’t we Gamma.” the 6 year old version of me would look up at her and smile. “We sure do!” she smiled back, returning to her tickling song. “Tickley, tickley round your tummy, if you laugh you’ll be a mummy.” her long fingers making loop da loops on my belly.

THE MOST COURAGEOUS LOVE STORY EVER TOLD - Says JMW

Katherine is the love of my life.

No doubt about it. .

But not that long ago she was my far away best friend who I was secretly so very in love with.

HOW WE TOLD OUR KIDS I'M TRANS

I knew that telling my kids my truth, about who I am was the only option! That showing the world that it really isn’t that complicated. That when someone tells you their truth you believe them and love them, because their truth has always been there, now you just get to know it.

A VERY FULL LIFE // ORIGIN STORY

"You've lived a very full life," he says to me, while looking down at my chart and simultaneously peering up over his glasses the way doctors do.

"I'm very interested," he carries on.

I deflect the awkwardness of the fact that until the age of 31 I've lived my life as a woman by making a joke: "What, not all transmen have birthed 4 kids?"

MY NEW HUSBAND // FROM HER VIEW

Once upon a time there was a little boy full of curiosity and questions, like all little boys. He loved roly-poly bugs and grasshoppers and skateboards and GI Joes.

He wanted Ninja Turtle underwear more than anything.

But there was a terrible misunderstanding.

The grownups made him wear pink underwear. And dresses. They made him grow his hair long. All the adults told the little boy that he wasn’t a boy, he was a GIRL.

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ALSO MADE US BEAUTIFUL?

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I believe that all it takes
to make a family is love,
that every family is different,
and that every family is a
beautiful family.