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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,...
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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 Katie Herzog Jackie came out to friends and family first and then posted a note on Facebook. She was adopting new pronouns, the note said, and she would like her community to respect that. It looked, at first, like a typical coming out circa 2017, one of many...
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Printed with permission from the author. Name withheld by request. …honestly I wanted the answer to be so simple and wanted to believe them that soon I would be my true self and my problems would go away. I had lived in so much pain for so long that I was...
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From M- I recently had the sex change surgery, and although I thought I was completely sure of what I was doing, I began to regret the decision a mere three weeks after the operation. Some might say I was experiencing post-op depression, but it was definitely...
