Trans Children Have Always Been Here

As legal efforts to eliminate trans youth ramp up, we must remember that being trans has always been part of childhood

Three trans girls photographed on July 7, 2018, in Round Rock, Texas. Photo: Adam Gray/Barcroft Media via Getty Images

I came out to my husband as nonbinary on my 38th birthday. It was, by anyone’s standards, a late transition, delayed in part because I’d spent more than a year privately agonizing about whether to do it…