Opinion

Trans people shouldn’t have to hide to help Democrats win

Jennifer Finney Boylan is a professor of English at Barnard College of Columbia University and a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her next book, “Mad Honey,” co-authored with Jodi Picoult, is scheduled to be published in October.

I was nervous. I’d known most of the ladies in my mother’s bridge group — conservatives, Republicans, evangelicals — since I was a child. But now that I’d come out as trans, I was being unveiled, like a new iPhone. The doorbell rang. My heart pounded in my throat.