Admittedly, calling the child I had known as my son for eleven years by female pronouns felt awkward at first. But so had the first time I did squats at the gym, and now I do them without thinking. Pronouns, I figured, were a lot like squats: I would trip all over them at first, but they would be easier with practice.
-- Amanda Jetté Knox, Love Lives Here, p. 73
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