Man Enough by Christian Escalona


A short and beautiful memoir about coming out. I’m the proud dad of a trans kid, and this one hit pretty close to home.

Fifteen years since I waited nervously in a Massachusetts clinic for my first testosterone injection. Fifteen years since my voice cracked at Thanksgiving dinner prompting my mother to ask me to leave her house for good. Fifteen years of learning to accept the ways my new life cost me my old one.

Thanks, Christian.

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