A Tyee Series
Girl Meets Boy
I always wondered how my transgender friends Amy and Gavin dealt with love, sex, surgery -- everything, really. So I invited them for dinner. First of two.
By Ryan Elias
http://thetyee.ca/Life/2011/10/20/Transgender-Friends/Kadie Somers was a classic tomboy; when she was eight she asked her mother for a Nick Carter bowl-cut and was horrified to get a Winona Ryder pixie instead.
Her first inkling that she might be gay came when she was 12 and discovered that she was far more interested in kissing her best friend than her boyfriend. For many years thereafter she figured that if the shoe fit, she might as well run in it, but the "lesbian" label never felt entirely comfortable.
Shayne had dyed-black hair that flopped over one eye, thick-framed rectangular glasses and a close-cropped goatee. Kadie met him more than once before she learned he was transgendered. It got her thinking. She asked him for some of his time.
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Girl Meets Boy II
Dinner winding down, I ask more about my transgender friends' experience with sex, families and tough criticism. Last of two.
http://thetyee.ca/Life/2011/10/21/Transgender-Friends-II/
