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A family-of-four, including 11 and 13-year-old siblings, have all come out as transgender .

Daniel Harrott lived most of his life as a woman, giving birth twice, but never truly felt right until he began transitioning to a man.

It was because of his children that he even learnt what the word 'transgender' meant, who also felt they'd been assigned the wrong gender at birth.

And when Daniel met Shirley, a transgender woman, the family from Queen Creek, Arizona, all accepted each other for whichever gender they wanted to be.

Daniel, 41, said: “It feels like you’re getting to live for the first time.

“And my children are getting to be who they’ve always wanted to be.”

(Image: Facebook)

(Image: Facebook)

His fiancée Shirley Austin is also transgender, telling kjzz.org : "The whole family is in transition."

Mason, 11, is living as a boy after being born female.

And Joshua, 13, was born as male but says she was only six or seven when she knew she was a girl.

Daniel described how he 'kept waiting' for makeup and women's clothing to feel right but it just never happened.

He married a man and gave birth to two children, and still didn't feel right.

(Image: Facebook)

(Image: Facebook)

It wasn't until Joshua, who was raised as a young boy, wanted to join Girl Scouts that Daniel came across a word he had never heard before, and things started to make sense.

He says he looked up what 'transgender' meant and realised suddenly that's what he'd always been, starting to live his life as male.

Joshua also came out as a transgender girl, followed by Mason who came out as a transgender boy.

Around that time, Daniel met Shirley at a volunteering project for parents of transgender youth, and soon enough they fell in love.

Shirley, 62, had also been married before and was excited to become part of a family that would love her for exactly who she is.