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Ricardo Ramos spent thirteen years as the most common kind of parent there is: a loving, well-intentioned father who was absolutely certain about something that was destroying his son. That is the story. And it has not been told.
In Spanish, it has never been told at all.
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The most underserved segment in the entire conversation about transgender families is the resistant parent. They don't read the books that exist. They don't attend the workshops. Ricardo Ramos writes from inside the resistance — because for thirteen years, he was it.
El mercado latinoamericano tiene cero recursos para el padre conservador que se enfrenta a la realidad transgénero de un hijo. Ricardo Ramos llena ese vacío desde adentro: fue ese padre durante trece años.
Not medication. Not therapy. The intervention is a parent. This number comes from peer-reviewed research (Ryan et al., 2010, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing) and it is the centre of Ricardo's argument: parental non-acceptance is not just a cultural position. It is a health risk.
Ricardo speaks to conservative and faith-based audiences without avoiding the theological question. His argument is not secular: it is grounded in the belief that nature, as God's creation, has diversity as a design principle.
Ricardo Ramos is a Venezuelan entrepreneur and author based in Madrid. His book God Makes No Mistakes documents thirteen years of resistance, rupture, and transformation — from a certain, loving father who nearly lost his transgender son, to the unconditionally supportive parent he became. He speaks and coaches on what it actually takes to change a core belief.
Ricardo Ramos is a Venezuelan entrepreneur, product manager, and author based in Madrid, Spain. His memoir and manual God Makes No Mistakes documents a thirteen-year journey from resistant, well-intentioned father to unconditionally supportive parent — with his son Valentin's journey as a transgender man at the centre of the story.
Born and raised in Venezuela, Ricardo brings a Latin American perspective to a conversation that has almost no Spanish-language resources for the most common kind of parent: the one who is not yet ready. His argument is not ideological. It is personal and evidential. Parental acceptance reduces serious self-harm attempts in transgender youth by 82 percent. The intervention is a parent. Ricardo writes and speaks to the people who actually hold that power.
He speaks in English and Spanish across corporate, faith, and cultural contexts. He lives in Madrid with his wife Vivianne and their three children.
Reduction in serious self-harm attempts
Ryan et al., 2010. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing. Parental acceptance vs. rejection.
Of transgender youth seriously consider suicide
The Trevor Project, 2023 National Survey on LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health.
Years Ricardo spent certain he was right
From the book. 2011 to 2024. The duration matters: this is not a quick turn. It is a long one.