Voices
Fourteen years ago, school teacher Herb McCaffrey made the local news by deciding to live as a female with the name Kerri. After much soul-searching, however, this teacher says, “Since then I have come to the realization that I made a mistake. I am living my life as...
Voices
Jamie Shupe retired from the Army with the rank of sergeant first class. He previously identified as transgender and was the first American to obtain nonbinary status under law. Four years ago, I wrote about my decision to live as a woman in The New York Times,...
News, Voices
Edited by Daniel Davis When a child says he is transgender, we are expected nowadays to accept and celebrate this announcement. But there are many parents who are not celebrating. They are suffering in silence. They know their children were not born in the wrong...
News, Voices
by Walt Heyer ‘The doctor basically used a bunch of trans people to experiment on and gain experience without being properly trained.’ Ashe underwent a gender-change surgery in 2016 at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) Hospital in Portland,...
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by Walt Heyer After much soul-searching, this teacher says, ‘I have come to the realization that I made a mistake. I am living my life as honestly as I can.’ At age 41, Herb underwent gender reassignment surgery in Canada, and became the first openly transgender...
Voices
There was no way she was ever going to go back to being a female. She hated the thought of being a woman. Being a man was exactly who she was supposed to be. Or so she thought. Laura Perry was deep in the transgender lifestyle. She was taking hormones, legally changed...