Years ago, I had a provider who I told I wanted to talk about my gender identity. I explained that I was afraid I might be experiencing Gender Dysphoria. It was a terrifying experience. I had thought about this for a long time, and it took a lot of courage for me to show up and verbalize it. I was well aware of the injustices that trans people face. I didn’t want to be one. I didn’t want it to be true.
Read MoreMy wife and I married on a Thursday night one May. Although the timing was strange (right in the middle of spring semester of my senior undergraduate year), the concluding line in our vows was not. It was a famous quotation from a Bible passage this is not uncommon in modern weddings: “Where you go I will go. Where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people. And your god, my god. And may God forbid anything coming in between this commitment we are making today…”
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