At school, around town and in family photos, Ryace would remain a boy. At home, Ryace could be a girl, wearing makeup and dresses. But her parents feared for her safety if they let her live openly as a girl in their tightly knit rural community.
Ryace (pronounced RYE-us) was assigned male at birth, but by the time she was 4, it was clear to her parents that she identified as a girl. “Do you know kids have tried to kill themselves?” “They were asking us these sad, terrible questions,” she told Steve Boyer as the two sat in their garage that August 2020 evening.
Was her then-12-year-old child, Ryace, hearing voices? Was she using illegal drugs? Had she ever been hospitalized for psychiatric treatment? Had she ever harmed herself?ĭanielle was still shaken when she and Ryace arrived home in this small town nestled in a bend of the Ohio River.
On the two-hour drive back from the hospital, Danielle Boyer kept replaying the doctor’s questions in her mind.
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