Secret Passage.
This article focuses on the personal narrative of a divorce lawyer who has lived much of her life navigating a complex gender identity that does not fit within the traditional binary of male or female. From childhood experiences of gender nonconformity and social rejection through adolescence and ad...
| Published in: | Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 1 - 23 |
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Michigan State University Press
Spring2026
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