About a Boy
Margaret Talbot writes about transgender youths and about Skylar, a teen-age boy who was born a girl, and had surgery at sixteen in order to transition.
Skylar's essay for the University of Chicago described his "archnemesis": "Pre-formed ideas of what it meant to have two X chromosomes." He started testosterone at sixteen, had top surgery before seventeen. Like many trans people of his generation, he is comfortable with some gender ambiguity.