Opinion: What becoming a woman taught me about privilege

I didn’t know it in those words, of course. In my naivete, I remember thinking I could choose my gender, that maybe a gender fairy would arrive and say, “OK, what’s it going to be?” Of course, I would choose what I understood myself to be — a girl. But alas, no gender fairy ever arrived. As the child of an evangelical pastor, I knew telling my family what I knew about myself was out of the question. It was

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