We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. After wrestling for decades with a sense of mistaken identity, in 2021, at age 66, the acclaimed writer-editor known as ...

In her memoir “I Heard Her Call My Name,” the author reflects on her life and embarking on a gender transition in her late 60s. By María Sánchez Díez Reporting from Kingston, N.Y. It took a lifetime.

The paperback version of Lucy Sante’s I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition was published on January 21, 2025, the day after Donald Trump was sworn in as president and issued an executive ...