A Letter to the Cis Person Who Wakes Up Trans

A Letter to the Cis Person Who Wakes Up Trans
It’s Not the Fun It’s Cracked Up to Be
Bethany Beeler
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Published inThe Transition Transmission
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4 min read·
Oct 4, 2021
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Dear Cister,
I know this is hard. It happened to me when I was in my 50s.
Yes, the news is full of stories about children already knowing they’re not the gender they were assigned at birth. They have it so easy, pestering their parents to buy them off-gender clothes and…
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Written by Bethany Beeler
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Author of North Street Book Prize Finalist, _How to NOT Know You’re Trans_, and artist. Her work has been published in multiple publications.
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