I interviewed "Dalton" many years ago. "Dalton" was a name we used to disguise his real identity. He had been one of my students as a female and was undergoing a gender reassignment to be a male when we talked.

"Dalton" recently died, which caused me to find the old interview and listen to it once again.

Being transgender has become a topic that is currently a political lightning bolt with fierce, conflicting opinions.

This episode of This Conversation is a chance to turn down the heat and hear the personal story of why one person would undergo the expense, inconvenience, surgery, and frequent rejection that comes with such a move.

Dalton's story is worth hearing again.

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