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Joy Ladin — Transgender Amid Orthodoxy: I Am Who I Will Be

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Importance of Learning to Talk as a Woman

"I smell blood in the water and I just go for it," she says of her transition. "For me, femininity is not associated with oppression or self-negation." She learned to speak as a woman by flattering men who condescend to her. The author's next book will be published on November 14 from Simon & Schuster at £16.99.

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