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My memoir, ‘Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic’ is now available. My work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, Newsweek, Quillette, The Free Press, Queer Majority, UnHerd, and many other publications.

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