There's a fight going on, but not many people know about it. It boils down to what most fights look like after a long time simmering and evaporating away their unnecessary parts—the right to tell a story. Like many other battles this one is about a people, power, and ownership. I'm talking about where transgender comes from, why it occurs, and what meaning to draw from it. If we left it up to The New York Times and David Letterman, transgender people, all, struggle with being the wrong sex in the wrong body. Chances are they know it [...]

Like many writers I know, I took a meandering path to this writing profession, starting out confident and then dedicating a long decade in quicksand—I think it's called self-doubt—after which I think I found myself in the center of the earth, and let me just say, it's hotter than I thought it would be down there. During this long break I suppose I opted to have a sex change, and then I realized that I needed to write about my transition. I didn't want to relate a tale of anguish and grief. Instead, I focused on the ludicrous [...]