Many in the transgender community are celebrating that Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, will be on the cover of Vanity Fair and hope the high-profile platform will lead to wider acceptance of transgender people. As part of Forum’s In My Experience series, we talk with local transgender people about their stories of transition and hear their thoughts on the nation’s discussion about Caitlyn Jenner.
Resources Recommended by Guests
Guests:
Jamie Rafaela Wolfe, vice president of TransGender San Francisco
Isa Noyola, program manager at the Transgender Law Center
Sawyer Steele, senior producer at Moxie Institute Film Studio and Lab
Fresh White, life coach and contributing author to "Trans Bodies, Trans Selves"
Books Recommended by Guests
Boys Like Her: Transfictions by Taste This
Letters for My Brothers by Megan Rohrer
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
"Transitioning" from KQED News