My Tomboy Heaven

Let’s not be so quick to deem kids transgendered

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The transgender trend has reached down to children. I wonder what people would have thought of my gender identity as a child. My experience says, yes, gender identity is complicated, but no, we shouldn’t be making life-changing decisions based on the impulses of kids.

In my earliest memory, I stand next to my mother, and there are strange women around her. I am outraged at being down here while everything interesting is going on up there.

Sarah Ruden

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Sarah Ruden

Sarah Ruden’s most recent books are the extensively revised second edition of her Aeneid translation and her new translation of the Gospels.

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