The passage below is excerpted from Reaching for Hope: Strategies and support for the partners of transgender people. From the moment we’re born, we have influential people in our life who teach us how to be the gender we’re assigned. These lessons are both spoken and unspoken, through direct teaching or by role-modeling. Trans people must unlearn those teachings and retrain into the person they want to be. Here’s how transgender researcher Dr. Ruth Pearce describes it: At th