{"id":13641,"date":"2024-03-09T16:37:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/i-was-having-a-much-better-time-as-a-girl-in-that-parallel-life-how-an-app-sparked-a-late-life-gender-transition\/"},"modified":"2024-03-09T16:37:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:37:16","slug":"i-was-having-a-much-better-time-as-a-girl-in-that-parallel-life-how-an-app-sparked-a-late-life-gender-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/i-was-having-a-much-better-time-as-a-girl-in-that-parallel-life-how-an-app-sparked-a-late-life-gender-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was having a much better time as a girl in that parallel life\u2019: how an app sparked a late-life gender transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an extract from her memoir, Lucy Sante reveals how she lived with the feeling of being the wrong gender into her 60s, when a smartphone app gave her the inspiration to take action<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/mar\/09\/this-secret-that-crippled-me-for-50-years-has-been-lifted-lucy-sante-i-heard-her-call-my-name-memoir-of-transition\">\u2018This secret that crippled me for 50 years has been lifted\u2019: read a Q&amp;A with Lucy Sante here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Between 28 February<\/em><em> and 1 March<\/em><em> 2021, I sent the following text as an email attachment to around <\/em><em>30 people I considered my closest<\/em><em> friends. <\/em><em>The subject line was<\/em><em>: \u201cA bombshell.\u201d I smirked at the unintentional pun and wondered whether anyone else would. It was simply titled: \u201cLucy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/mar\/09\/lucy-sante-i-heard-her-call-my-name-a-memoir-of-transition-extract\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e9c24d8633d3cbedb4eb9fd9b0af6da630b2c169\/0_884_5383_3230\/master\/5383.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a7291cb1b7636059cd51c30bf7ffa5fb\" title=\"\u2018I was having a much better time as a girl in that parallel life\u2019: how an app sparked a late-life gender transition\" \/>In an extract from her memoir, Lucy Sante reveals how she lived with the feeling of being the wrong gender into her 60s, when a smartphone app gave her the inspiration to take action<br \/>\n\u2018This secret that crippled me for 50 years has been lifted\u2019: read a Q&amp;A with Lucy Sante here<br \/>\nBetween 28 February and 1 March 2021, I sent the following text as an email attachment to around 30 people I considered my closest friends. The subject line was: \u201cA bombshell.\u201d I smirked at the unintentional pun and wondered whether anyone else would. It was simply titled: \u201cLucy.\u201d<br \/>\n* * * Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an extract from her memoir, Lucy Sante reveals how she lived with the feeling of being the wrong gender into her 60s, when a smartphone app gave her the inspiration to take action \u2018This secret that crippled me for 50 years has been lifted\u2019: read a Q&amp;A with Lucy Sante here Between 28 February &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/i-was-having-a-much-better-time-as-a-girl-in-that-parallel-life-how-an-app-sparked-a-late-life-gender-transition\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I was having a much better time as a girl in that parallel life\u2019: how an app sparked a late-life gender transition<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13641"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}