Jennifer Finney Boylan on her memoir ‘Cleavage’
Jennifer Finney Boylan reflects on her life as a transgender women and the ongoing fight for acceptance and rights.
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Jennifer Finney Boylan has lived on both sides of the gender divide. More than twenty years ago, she transitioned and has since become one of the most well-known and outspoken transgender women in the country. She’s been married to the same woman for three decades and their children are now adults.
Her 2003 groundbreaking memoir, She’s Not There, was a bestseller and helped to usher in the transgender rights movement. Her new memoir, Cleavage, is a humorous and honest account of her life as an older woman looking back on her younger self. She also writes about one of her own kids coming out as transgender and the climate of hostility towards trans people today.
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