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Defending my Female Identity — to My Brother the Prosecutor
Lawyers are always suspicious of what they hear
Content and Trigger Warning:
This article includes brief references to sexual violence and a candid discussion of human sexuality and anatomy. None of it is gratuitous. It is necessary to understand the issues involved.
My brother was a lifelong federal prosecutor. He never accepts anything he hears at face value.
I am a transgender woman. In the late summer and early fall of 2020, I began sharing my true identity with virtually everyone I knew. I had written a particularly graphic and personal email to my brother sharing that not only was my true identity being revealed, I also seemed to be experiencing a change in my sexuality. In his mind it raised more questions than it answered. My comments completely contradicted everything he thought he knew about me. This is how he responded:
*To: L+C B…..
Subject: A question lingers
The one I asked you on the phone.
When did you first feel this way?
I ask you this because I feel blindsided. Not that I haven’t been blindsided before in life, and not because I…
