MALIBU – When Absinthe Carson drove her six and eight-year-old daughters to Alyssa Milano Elementary School this morning, her 11-year-old son, Leshawn X, was on a bus headed across town to Hollow Point Middle School in Compton. Instead of attending his last year at Milano, Lashawn enrolled in an inner city school he felt would better suit his cultural heritage. Hollow Point students are predominantly African American and, although Leshawn was born a white girl, he identifies as an African American man. “When Blossom told us she was transitioning to an African American man and changing her name to Lashawn X, we were ecstatic,” gushed his father, Abercrombie Carson. “Just the idea that our family would be culturally and ethnically diverse made us positively giddy. Everybody in our gated community is elated to have a black man living amongst them.” LeShawn X is a precocious 11-year-old with freckles and a winning smile. According to his parents, when he was three he complained about the lack of diversity in the family. When he was four his preschool teacher called his parents, curious about their daughter’s penchant for reading books by writers that included Huey Newton, James Baldwin and Sammy Davis Jr. […]