Early In My Transition, Two Teenagers Helped Me Embrace My Identity
At age 36, when newly transitioning, I feared no one would ever see me for who I really am. Then I met a couple of 14-year-olds.
Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Evening Hour and the editor of Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships & Identity. He is the recipient of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award. Carter teaches in the low-residency MFA programs at Eastern Oregon University and West Virginia Wesleyan College.
At age 36, when newly transitioning, I feared no one would ever see me for who I really am. Then I met a couple of 14-year-olds.