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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Io Dodds

‘Never ask permission’: How two trans women ran a legendary underground surgical clinic in a rural tractor barn

Eilís Ní Fhlannagáin

Somewhere in the boondocks of America's Pacific Northwest, near the city of Olympia in Washington state, there is a long gravel logging track leading off the main road between a field and a forest.

If you follow that track for about a kilometre, you will find a rustic-looking wooden house that has stood there for about a century, with an old tractor barn converted into a small outbuilding. There might be chickens, sheep, and geese honking raucously at your arrival.

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