For most people, the pandemic lockdowns will be remembered as a time that shrank our worlds, stripping away most of life as we knew it.
For Gina Chua, the executive editor of Reuters, it was when her world opened up. Ms. Chua, 60, transitioned genders during 2020, using the time at home and away from the office to, as she describes it, “grow into this skin.” On Dec.
18, she wrote to her colleagues at Reuters to inform them of the change. “For some time now I’ve been on a journey,” she said in the email. “It’s mostly been private, internal and exploratory, but it’s time to move beyond that and mark a new milestone in that passage.