That Old Familiar Feeling

Trans people need community more than most. We’re also especially good at making life hard for each other.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
16 min readApr 17, 2023

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Some raw beef.
Beef, still fresh. Photo by Jez Timms on Unsplash

At the beginning of my transition, I would go to the big chain bookstore in the strip mall at the edge of town and buy any book written by a trans person.

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.