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Title: The transgender life looks like others
Post by: Shana A on June 25, 2011, 08:09:12 AM
The transgender life looks like others

    Article by: JACQUELINE WHITE
    Updated: June 24, 2011 - 10:20 PM

There's discrimination, but those who have family support can thrive.

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/124517723.html (http://www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/124517723.html)

It sounds like a great set-up for drama: My spouse, Marcus, who used to be Margery, goes back to the college he attended as a woman, which happens to be a women's college, Mount Holyoke.

How will the alumnae respond when one of their own shows up at their 25th reunion as a man?

The drama turned out to be a nonstory. Of course some classmates did initially --understandably -- look to me as the presumed alumna.