Jennifer Finney Boylan is a transgender woman, parent, spouse and author of ten books.
She recently told her family story in the New York Times’s column, “Modern Love.” Jenny gives a wonderful account of a family dealing with change, starting right around the time her young children dubbed her “Maddy.” Her article is a compelling and sweet read.
From “Maddy Just Might Work After All”:
In the end, the prayer was answered, although not in the way I had expected. Because of the love of my spouse, Deedie, not to mention that of my boys, I found the courage, somehow, to traverse the weird ocean between men and women, to make the voyage not only from one sex to another, but from a place where my life was defined by the secrets I kept to a new one, where almost everything I’d ever held in my heart could finally be spoken out loud.
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