Modern love.
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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love.
Stories of love, loss and redemption.
Lisa Mullins in for Magna Charcobarti 16 years ago, Jennifer Finney Boylan came out as transgender.
The family she created with her wife and two young sons inevitably evolved as well, but not in the way you might think.
Jennifer Finney Boylan, the writer, academic, and activist, reads her own essay Matty just might work after all.
In the last year of my father's life, he started a sleepwalk.
I was 27, back in my parents house to help with his care.
In the middle of the night, I'd hear his heavy footsteps coming up to the third floor where I lived in a room locked with a deadbolt.
He'd creep through the hallway and open the door to the spare room diagonally across the hall from mine, and lie down in the guest bed.
After a while, he'd start to snore and I'd know he was okay, at least until morning, when he'd wake up confused and angry.
God damn it, he'd say.
Where am I?
What the hell am I doing here?
He didn't know I was transsexual, or if he did, he never said anything about it.
I doubt he even knew the word transsexual or transgender and almost surely could not have explained the difference between the two.