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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Io Dodds

Why losing trans pioneer Lynn Conway feels like a death in the family

Marcin Szczepanski/University of Michigan via AP

There is part of me that will probably always feel like an orphan.

Don’t get me wrong, my parents are perfectly alive. I love them very much, and I’m lucky enough to have a good relationship with them. But there’s still a part of me that they could never parent, never fully nourish, because they didn’t know it existed.

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