Jennifer Finney Boylan

Trump Cannot Define Away My Existence
The administration seems to think transgender people like me are as imaginary as hippogriffs.
By Jennifer Finney Boylan
Contributing Opinion Writer NYT

I was surprised to learn on Sunday morning that I do not exist.

This will come as sad news to my children, to whom I’ve been a mother for over 20 years now.

It will come as a shock to my wife, too, to whom I’ve been married for 30 years.

It would have been a disappointment for my mother, as well — the conservative, evangelical Christian Republican, who, when she learned I was transgender, two decades ago, said, “I would never turn my back on my child,” and then quoted First Corinthians: “These three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.”
- Jennifer Finney Boylan