This grounded theory investigated acceptance from the experiences of 28 Filipino parents whose children are self-identified trans women. Parent participants were recruited via snowball and purposive sampling techniques. Data were collected using in-depth interviews and reflective journals. Parents believe that trans women are God’s creation who manifest the thoughts, feelings, and actions of a woman and who are good natured and self-driven, genetically determined with unchangeable quality, visible in the community and need protection. Parents view themselves as stewards of the God-given gift with the role of protecting the safety and future of their trans women children despite having feelings of certainty and uncertainty. A strengths-based and child-centered process towards supportive environment for trans women’s gender identity was developed describing distinct processes in the pre-acceptance, acceptance, and post-acceptance phases. Parents have offered some alternative ways that strengthened their adaptation to effectively co-exist and maintain a healthy relationship with their trans women children.

这个扎根理论调查了 28 位菲律宾父母的经历，他们的孩子是自我认同的跨性别女性。家长参与者是通过滚雪球和有目的的抽样技术招募的。数据是通过深度访谈和反思性期刊收集的。父母相信跨性别女性是上帝的创造物，她们体现了女性的思想、感受和行动，她们性情善良、自我驱动、基因决定、品质不变、在社区中可见并需要保护。父母将自己视为上帝赐予的礼物的管家，尽管有确定性和不确定性的感觉，但他们的角色是保护跨性别女性孩子的安全和未来。开发了一个基于优势和以儿童为中心的跨性别女性性别认同支持环境过程，描述了接受前、接受和接受后阶段的不同过程。父母提供了一些替代方法来加强他们的适应，以有效地与跨性别女性孩子共存并保持健康的关系。