Growing Up In The White House: Presidents’ Kids Then And Now

A Mother’s Plea

Because so many are aware that Ivanka has such a tremendous impact on her father, some have taken to addressing Ivanka directly in hopes that they will be heard by Trump himself. For instance, one mother who is the parent of a young transgender girl wrote to Ivanka after the administration rolled back protections of transgender kids in schools. The mother, Isabel Rose, wrote of her daughter, Sadie’s, struggle saying, By four, Samuel broke out in hives when we tried to cut his hair, and at five he told us, through tears, that he wanted to burn his face off because it wasn’t a girl’s face.

She went on imploring Ivanka to think of her own children being in such a situation. Isabel said “What about your children, Ivanka? What do they want to be when they grow up? … Who are they beneath the trappings of their anatomy? Are they, like my child, a pure vessel of wonder and potential and love?” Ivanka has not publicly responded to the letter, but anyone who reads it would surely be moved by the emotion behind it.