A lot of you wrote to me about my recent post, “That’s why they’re called privates.”  In a nutshell, I was writing about touring a new afterschool program for my daughter, and the director had got wind of the fact that she is transgender and had apparently told her whole staff before we’d even talked…

Dear friends, Today the Advocate published an op-ed I wrote.  You can read it here.  It expresses feelings I’ve wanted to write about for some time, ever since I learned that my young child was transgender and I began encountering older trans women whose experience has generally been vastly different from hers. I know this is…