What It Means to "Transform" — This Transgender Actress Is Telling Her Story (Through Song and Theatre)

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PLAYBILL/By Olivia Clement/09/19/2015

""It's a flabbergasting thing," begins Shakina Nayfack. "To consider mutilating the part of your body that causes the most pleasure in hopes that you can receive something greater than what you already have." For people who have never lived with gender dysphoria, it's perhaps unimaginable, but Nayfack, a performer, writer and artistic director, has made it her mission to bring trans stories to the forefront ."