I love being a girl, I’ve never wanted to be anything else and I know that makes me lucky. I have never known the emotional struggle of not feeling comfortable in my own body, of having to make others understand that my gender identity is not the one I was assigned at birth. I know nothing of it. How could I? It’s not something I have experienced. My brother is gay and our parents were extremely and openly homophobic. We hated it, but given my …
