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Jenny Boylan 🍯

6 months

I just delivered the final draft of my new nonfiction book to @CeladonBooks . With any luck you'll see it about a year from now. You will not believe this one. I cannot wait. What is it about? For now let's just say: Men and Women.

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3 years

This year, for Lent, I am giving up.

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5 years

If you are a transgender person who is now, or has been, a member of the armed forces, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you have sacrificed. This darkness will give, some day, I promise. In the meantime, you are revered, and loved.

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5 years

Married 31 years today. 12 as husband and wife. 19 as wife and wife. Dear transphobes: How’s YOUR marriage doin’?

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4 years

A transgender woman is prominently quoted in one of the lead stories in the NYT today, but she is not identified as trans in any way, since her gender has nothing to do with the story. She is quoted as an expert in her field. Which she is. Imagine living in a world like that.

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4 years

I did not know who else had signed that letter. I thought I was endorsing a well meaning, if vague, message against internet shaming. I did know Chomsky, Steinem, and Atwood were in, and I thought, good company. The consequences are mine to bear. I am so sorry.

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7 years

SO CAITLYN. WE GOTTA TALK.

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3 years

Married 33 years now. 12 as husband and wife. 21 as wife and wife. Love is love. #pride

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5 years

My trans daughter and her girlfriend were engaged last night and the world is BRILLIANT.

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4 years

THE SUPREME COURT DOES NOT REPEAT NOT MISGENDER AIMEE STEPHENS IN ITS RULING. JK, are you listening?

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4 years

I don’t engage in conversations about my right to exist. It’s undignified. I can tell you, @jk_rowling that I’m in a house with two 20-somethings who are sobbing uncontrollably. They grew up with your books. You could have been a beacon of hope. Instead, you did this.

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6 years

@heyitschili @gwenners I could watch a whole movie of this.

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4 years

1. My friend @kathygriffin was put in Twitter jail yesterday after the Washington Examiner complained about her syringe tweet. The paper feels that a comedian's comment is more dangerous to us than a president who lies to us, daily. And talks about insulin like it's bacon.

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4 years

All of the 20 somethings I know have turned their backs on JK Rowling because of her comments about trans women. It’s astonishing to me. They grew up with her work and loved it profoundly.

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5 years

🇺🇸 You have been an HISTORIC President! You have truly made us WIN! SO MUCH! You can resign now knowing you accomplished THE MOST! America will never forget what you did to it! There will never be another President like you! 🇺🇸 @realDonaldTrump #TrumpResign #MAGA

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7 years

One of my favorite book covers @alexanderchee

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4 years

55% of couples with one spouse emerging as trans stay together. This is in fact, MORE than the average for all first marriages, 50% of which end in divorce.

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6 years

Should I run in next years election against Senator Susan Collins in Maine?

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9 years

TRANS LIVES, WHITE PRIVILEGE. My essay on the New York Times op/Ed page on the string of Trans murders this year.... http://t.co/SrFecqI4xL

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3 years

1/ There's going to be a 60 Minutes on detransitioners. They asked me to be a talking head, and I said I'd prefer not to be part of this story. They said, Please? I said, you ought to talk to Torrey Peters, or at the least someone AFAB (since that's the focus). They said...

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4 years

Got the results of my mammogram and I'm A-OK, although I briefly felt like a panini. A reminder to trans women to get yourself checked out, especially if you're over 50. We have increased odds of breast cancer. Mammography is covered under Obamacare.

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6 years

I’m so tired of fighting for my right to exist.

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9 years

The piece I wrote for @people on our complex relationship with @Caitlyn_Jenner and her complex welcome to me. http://t.co/04F6yd7DAU

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7 years

Please RT afar and wide. Here's my piece in the NYT on the threats we now face. Courage, my friends. COURAGE.

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3 years

2/ ...we'd really like you, JFB. I said, I'm honored, but I think this is a terrible idea for a story. Why focus on this small group of outliers, when you could focus on the struggles, and triumphs, of so many other trans folks? They said, These people feel like....

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5 years

The whole point of coming out as a trans woman is not to be beautiful, but to have a good life. Everyone likes to slay sometimes. But life is long, & beauty can also be a kind of tyranny. In the end, your heart matters more than a little button nose.

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6 years

THERE IS NO MAJOR NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD WITH A TRANS COLUMNIST. I write this not to promote my own freelance work at the NYT. I say it just to make cis folks consider, maybe for the first time, what it is like to NEVER READ THE WORDS OF SOMEONE LIKE YOU in the media. EVER.

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5 years

I keep coming back to this. When I first saw a shrink for help with being trans, I could barely say the word. I was shaking, drenched in sweat. Last night, 10 candidates for president gathered on stage and talked about trans lives. They said the word I once could not. @glaad

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4 years

Probably also noting that nothing in the story involved her a) doing her makeup; or b) looking all fabulous purty glamaroo; or c) looking into a mirror while brushing her hair; or d) talking about who she has sex with; or e) using the words "journey" or "authentic" or "brave."

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7 years

I am a Christian parent. And a transgender woman. I prepared my children for this world by teaching them to fill their hearts with love.

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6 years

Thread: 1. There were a lot of reasons why I began transition, at last, in 1999. But there was one day that made all the difference.

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5 years

One of the largest and most influential churches in America had a transgender girl playing the part of Mary in its children's Christmas play this week. She was full of grace.

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3 years

7/ ...Later, I thought: Jenny Boylan, you might be the first trans woman in history who begged, please please please, don't put me on your TV show. As the old saying does not go, Be careful what you don't ask for. You might not get it.

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Jenny Boylan 🍯

@JennyBoylan

6 years

There is no such thing as "not trans enough." You can be trans without being pretty. You can be trans without surgery. You can be trans without giving a fuck about fashion. You can be trans no matter whom you love. You can be you. Today. Just as you are. I love you. #PrideMonth

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5 years

THEY ACTUALLY ADMIT IT: The trans "bathroom predator myth" was concocted out of thin air, to give them cover for their hate. REMINDER: MORE GOP CONGRESSMEN HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR BEING PREDATORS IN BATHROOMS THAN TRANS WOMEN.

Anti-LGBTQ Activist Admits Bathroom Predator Myth Was ‘Concocted’ As Cover for Transphobic Hate

A controversial TV commercial this fall featured a teenage girl, undressing in a ladies locker room, while a hooded cisgender man leers at her from within a stall. As she unbuttons her top, the...

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3 years

6/ ... I'm aware that time is passing and that there is a new generation of trans spokespeople who can and ought to be doing this work. And I'm also kind of done explaining myself, or begging for my dignity. I'm hoping the show is good. We will see....

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1 year

@rocketfantastic @chelseabwrites I once had one where it was just me and a friend in a B&N. The friend didn’t know I was giving a reading; he was there by accident. I suspect this happens to writers more often than any of us admit.

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4 years

Bernie impressed me here. Eloquent and inspiring. I’m not a fan of his. Or, I wasn’t, anyway. #theweeklynyt

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3 years

3/ ...their stories deserve to be told. I said, fair enough, but why this, why now, when there are so many other stories that also need to be urgently told? They said, we're doing the story, will you be part of it or not? I said, can you talk to someone at @glaad or @hrc or...

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1 year

At the @PENamerica literary awards, she introduced herself to me as Molly, a translator of French novels. She did not tell me she was Molly Ringwald.

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8 years

So wait. The big news story is that Trump turns out to be a total fucking asshole? People. Tell me exactly when surprise set in.

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5 years

When my daughter came out as trans this year we got a new Xmas stocking for her. We figured a reindeer with glitter sequin antlers would do the trick. Merry Christmas to all trans children, and all trans parents! Oh yeah, and the rest of you too.

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Jenny Boylan 🍯

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5 years

My transness is not subversive. My transness is not funny. My transness is not tragic. My transness is not part of some tear-stained BRAVE STRUGGLE. My transness doesn't make me cool. My transness doesn't make me scary. It just is. Can we talk about something else now?

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4 years

Somewhere a trans guy can't bind right now because of pulmonary concerns around COVID. Somewhere a trans person is isolating with parents who misgender them daily. Somewhere a trans girl is stuck at home & can't get hormones. I SEE YOU. YOU ARE LOVED. YOU ARE REAL.

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Jenny Boylan 🍯

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6 years

My wife and I are off to Tuscany this weekend, to celebrate 30 years of marriage—12 as husband and wife, 18 as wife and wife. We will drink Chianti and valpollicella and hike the Cinque Terre and consider how our marriage has outlasted that of every anti-LGBTQ couple we know.

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And now, two women who have been married for 30 years TOMORROW. Raised a good family. Did our jobs. The world continued to spin. I love you Deedie.

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10 years

Whenever I hear of LGBT people voting Republican, I think of the pig wearing a chefs hat on the sign for a barbecue place.

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Jenny Boylan 🍯

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4 years

If you are a transgender or non-binary person alone or sundered from family today, send me an email at jb @Jenniferboylan .net between now and 1 and I will call you on the phone.

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3 years

4/ ... @transequality whose speciality is public policy? I'm a novelist and an English teacher and I'm not all that great with stories that belong to other people? They said, okay we'll try, but we'd be grateful if you'd consider. I got my hair done: first time in a salon in...

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8 years

“You’ve gone to a lot of trouble to become a woman — don’t be a stupid one” Big-ass piece on JFB in NYT

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7 years

National Suicide Outline 1-800-273-8255 Trevor Project (LGBTQ) 866-488-7386

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3 years

@Caitlyn_Jenner This is such bullshit.

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4 years

I have had people accost me in the NY streets because of things I wrote in the @nytopinion page about trans lives. I have been proud to be part of the page since 2007. Tonight I am not proud. I stand with black times writers, whose lives are endangered by the cotton screed.

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3 years

I’ve never heard of Caitlyn Jenner, and I know nothing about her.

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3 years

COUNT EVERY LEGAL GLOAT

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3 years

This disabled, trans teacher listened to tonight’s speeches and wept. Tonight I feel part of this country again.

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1 year

Madonna and I are the same age.

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6 years

I found a dozen roses strewn upon the beach, and knew they told a story. "Fuck you, Aquaman," the woman said. "I'm done."

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Jenny Boylan 🍯

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6 years

My child Z has come out as trans. I have nothing but love and support and pride for her. For once, I'm going to say nothing else publicly about my family's life, unless specifically given my daughter's blessing. But I can tell you she inspires me, and that our love is strong.

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3 years

Jan Morris has died on the #TransDayOfRemembrance She was the first trans person I ever knew about. In Venice, I stood on the Academia bridge where her children used to pause to wave at her. I waved there. Because I am one of her children too.

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5/ ...a year, read up on the issue, talked to some people, read Torrey's book. Finally they called back and said, OK, we got someone else to talk on camera. I felt such a huge sense of relief. Also, a little glum, because I felt like I'd "let down the side." But...

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5 years

Sorry about this. But I just want to say it’s been like a year and a half that she’s been gone. And I still miss my fucking dog. That’s all.

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4 years

Kind of an in-joke.

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3 years

After 5 years I still grieve.

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3 years

I admit I am wearied by people saying, “We are better than this.” I’m pretty sure we are not. I’m pretty sure this is exactly who we are.

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5 years

I am a transgender woman married for 31 years now to my bride: 12 years as husband and wife, 19 as wife and wife. We love each other madly, now more than ever. But please. Do lecture me some more about your traditional values.

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Todd Palin files for divorce from former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin

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6 years

@cmclymer Charlotte, it is not pineapple per se I object to, it is the category of "hot fruit."

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6 years

19. People who arrive at this moment deserve to be held in someone's arms. To be loved and protected. To be admired for the burden they tried to carry to protect others. And to be celebrated for having more courage than most people will ever know.

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7 years

I want Hillary to become like Bill Murray. Just show up at random bridal showers, bookstores, women's shelters.

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Hillary spotted shopping at Westerly bookstore in RI. No recent Chipotle sitings.

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6 years

I finished and filed my column on the latest crap-a-thon for trans folks coming out of the WH. It ought to be up at the @nytopinion in the morning. It was hard to write, because I am just livid with rage: not the best place to write from. But I filed it. WHO WILL FIGHT FOR ME?

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1 year

This blurry photo is my only memento of one of the best interviews I ever gave in my life. Tough, fierce, but respectful, too, and joyful, in the end. Just before the cameras rolled,she leaned in and said, Put on some lipstick, Jennifer. I did.

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4 years

So the Boylan family will be going through a complex, if not unjoyful, passage this week. I don’t want to say more than this but if you would keep us in your hearts I would be grateful.

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7 years

@dog_feelings @dog_rates

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4 years

Someone painted this and left it in our garden.

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6 years

17. It is never too late to live your life.

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6 years

My sister and I fell out over the trans thing and did not speak for a dozen years. Tomorrow I cheer her on at a speech she’s giving and afterwards we will have a ridiculous dinner. It cost us nothing to forgive one another.

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2 years

There is a book written by a trans woman on the bestseller list. It's not the first time, and it's not the last. But yes: we write books. We tell stories. With any luck, we touch lives, open hearts. You'd be surprised what trans women can do, if you give us a chance.

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7 years

@StephenKing I think they imagined him. But they didn't imagine a country in which he'd be elected.

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2 years

I heard they re-broadcast my episode of @waitwait on NPR today. Once again, 3 right, 0 wrong. The topic was hot dogs. For weeks in advance, I had studied up on the trans-Siberian railroad, thinking, Of course they'll go there. They didn’t. Love to @petersagal

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J.K. You're 54. If you still menstruate, bully for you, but pretty soon you'll join the rest of us in menopause. At which point you'll guess what--still be female. As are plenty of people who don't have periods. Surely you've read a book about treating outcasts with love?

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‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud? Opinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate

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5 years

Looks like tomorrow is the day we say farewell to our 14 year old lab. We could not do the deed today. Instead we brought him home one last time and made him a chicken dinner. We listened to Johnny Cash, his favorite. Love is a burning thing.

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On this Trans Day of Visibility I want to thank the trans folks who are less than visible, who quietly go about the business of their lives: Fire captains, piano tuners, Teachers, train conductors— all the trans folks I have met since 2000 who refute the world's hate by living.

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3 years

I’m starting a business called RESOLUTIONS. For the first two weeks of the year, it’s a health club. After that, it’s a bar.

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4 years

I’m sorry, I’m not going to say anything about her. I just can’t bear it.

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2 years

I’m eight miles high. My words projected onto the facade of 30 Rock. Part of Jenny Holzer’s piece celebrating the centenary of @PENamerica . We change the world with the stories we tell.

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6 years

In one month we will have been married for 30 years. AKA, half of my life.

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3 years

Today's insight on parenting. It's like making a movie in reverse. When they're born, you're Producers. Then, until middle school, you're Directors. In high school, you're demoted to Stage Managers. After that? Audience.

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I cut my hair and went a shade darker. I am not young. But I feel sometimes Like I still have all the love in my heart I shall ever need To crush my enemies

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1 year

A book (co!) authored by a transgender woman has now been on the bestseller list for 19 weeks. UP two slots today, in fact, to number 8. @jodipicoult you stick with me. I’ll make you a star. No mention at all yet of the book at the NYT outside of the list, though. Hm.

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4 years

Mr. President I am with you! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 #MAGA

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TRANSITION TO GREATNESS!

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Some of you know I have a trans daughter. I don't post a lot about her, in order to give her some of the privacy that I myself cleverly sacrificed in becoming a public advocate. But I can tell you her FFS went well, that she is on the mend, and back w her Maine family for July.

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16. The question is, How did you manage to go so long? What enabled you to keep carrying your burden in secret, walking around with a shard of glass in your foot, for all those years?

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When I transitioned, they said: Your poor children! Tomorrow one graduates from Vassar. We all love each other.

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4 years

On this day, 32 years ago, I married Deirdre Finney. We have spent more than half our lives together now. "Then you love me?" I suppose I do "And I suppose I love you too." It doesn't change a thing But even so After thirty-two years It's nice to know

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@Russian_Starr @marcushjohnson @MittRomney True enough, but at least he's saying something. As opposed to the silence from other conservative leaders.

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5 years

I’m thinking I’m going to replace the head shot I’ve been using for 10 years with this one. What do you think?

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4 years

For all those wondering, this is my son Nestor. We share no blood but he is my life. He came from Cuba (legally, of course) six years ago and lives with me in Florida. I am so proud of him and raising him has been the best, most rewarding thing I’ve done in my life.

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4 years

I love it when the Stupids try to shame decorated soldiers like @cmclymer or @valor4us as if somehow being trans means you do not love your country, or that somehow you are not tough as fuck. Would you mess with these warrior women? I wouldn’t.

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3 years

Dear @TheView I would totally co-host. Wouldn't you like a trans woman? I write opinions for @nytopinion & @washingtonpost & was on @HardballChris & @IAmCait I play the Autoharp© I can talk about pizza, & whiskey, & human rights. LET'S DO THIS. PLS RT! #JennyBoylanForTheView

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