"Eventually you come out the other side and realise you now know your parent better than you ever did." "And now it just seems, I look back and it's like what was the fuss, it was no big deal. "Then I went through, I guess I would call it grief, where I was really worried that I was going to lose my dad. "I was so nervous about what it was that she was going to tell me and I didn't expect it - it was just the last thing I would've expected. "Tina came out to me when we were sitting together in a parked car in Fairfield and she had such a serious look on her face. "When we were growing up Tina was so much fun, she was such an involved, happy, really down to earth dad," she said. Jessica was inspired to write Introducing Teddy after her father came out as a transgender woman, Tina Healy, about three-and-half years ago. "What's really nice with little kids is when you read them a story that reflects your family, you know that they're able to identify themselves in that story," Jessica told 7.30. Introducing Teddy is a children's book about a transgender teddy bear. Former secondary teacher and new mum Jessica Walton was struggling to find a children's book for her son that reflected her own family - so she wrote her own.
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