Traveling While Trans

Laura Nelson
10 min readJun 24, 2019
Me at Marble Brewery, Albuquerque NM. Photo courtesy Monique Sterling, author’s friend.

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I was invited to a wedding of an old friend in Albuquerque last week. I knew her before my transition, which is now somewhere between its early phases and the middle of the journey. I would be traveling from New York, which is probably as trans-friendly a burg as you can find (especially if you’re “passable” whatever that might mean, and if you are white, which is a keen source of guilty despair for me). So I did my…

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Laura Nelson

Writer, philosopher, information technologist,guitarist, neurotic, polite radical, avid and indiscriminate reader, Episcopalian, trans woman.