Melody

Melody is a child who felt he was born in the wrong body.
==History==
Melody came into the practice with his parents. He’d been miserable all week. First, he said his throat hurt, then he stopped eating, then he said his ears hurt. Cooper took him in for an exam. His mother, Pam, tried to join him, but Melody said he didn't need his mom to come. Cooper said they'd come get his mother if they needed her.
Cooper did the exam and said it kind of seemed like Melody just wanted to skip school. Melody confessed that he was a boy and his parents wouldn't believe him . He said he'd felt like that forever.
Cooper asked Violet to talk to Melody and those feelings.
Violet talked to Michael and Pam about it and they brushed it off as Melody playing pretend. She asked for their permission to talk to Melody about the situation and assess what was happening. Michael was receptive to the idea, but Pam immediately shut it down and told Violet and Cooper to leave.
During the school day, Melody took the bus to the practice and Violet and Cooper went in to talk to him. He said his parents had argued the night before. Michael wanted to know more about the medicine that could help him, but his mother refused to hear anything about it. Melody said that in his dreams, he was always a boy. When he wakes up, for a second, he’s still a boy and then his mother comes in and lays out his clothes. He refuses to wear the clothes, they fight, and he loses TV. He hates wearing girl clothes and acting like a girl because it feels like he’s pretending all the time and no one will let him stop.
Mason came in with Charlotte and told Melody that his mom died. Melody said he was a boy and no one believed him. Mason invited Melody to play. They played with a paper football on a tabletop.
Michael and Pam arrived at the practice and Violet said that they couldn't berate Melody into changing his mind. The most they could do would be to support him. Melody refused to go with his parents, but Pam tried to drag him out. Cooper stopped her and said they needed to try to understand Melody. Pam started to cry and say that Melody was her little girl. Melody hugged her as Violet explained that they could help them all adjust as Melody became the person he was meant to be.
==Relationships==
===Familial===
Melody's mother refused to believed that Melody was actually a boy, while his father was slightly more supportive and willing to hear about options for them.
===Friendships===
Mason invited Melody to play for a while at the practice.
==Notes and Trivia==
*Melody was ten years old at the time of his confession.
*Melody had been seeing Cooper since the age of two.
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