The trans experience — both the experience itself and the way we talk about it — has changed rapidly since 2003, when Jennifer Finney Boylan published her game-changing memoir, She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders.
The book, one of the first best-sellers by a trans author, has gone on to become a seminal piece of the trans literary canon.
Looking back, Boylan notes a "faint aroma of apology" that colors certain aspects of the book. "I felt like I had to be apologetic.