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Maine woman’s best shot pays off in life and basketball
The 54-year-old plays for other transgender woman who can’t. “I’m just a woman who loves basketball and loves her team.”
Maine’s aging transgender population faces profound challenges
Many people lose life-long relationships. Others worry about finding competent doctors and long-care facilities that are accepting and supportive.
A cancer survivor, former Marine and teacher lives her best life at 65
Christine Caulfield’s lifelong path wasn’t easy, but her wife and children support the woman who now supports others.
One transgender man’s journey to find hope and happiness
Will I ever be loved? For one transgender man, the answer is yes. “I want people to know there is support out there for them.”
The heartbreak, hope and courage of a Maine transgender child
Their lives in a largely rural state can be especially difficult. They face bullying and isolation, and health resources are hard to come by.
A chaplain is there to lend an ear
She provides reassurance to transgender kids and their families at Portland’s pediatric gender clinic.
Series Contributors
Barbara A. Walsh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has worked for newspapers in Ireland, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Florida. While working at the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, she reported on first-degree killer William Horton Jr. and Massachusetts’ flawed prison-furlough system. The series changed in-state sentencing and furlough laws and won a 1988 Pulitzer Prize.
Fred J. Field is a photojournalist who has completed more than 15,000 newspaper and magazine assignments. He has been a staff photographer at newspapers in Maine and Massachusetts, becoming photo director at two of them. He has earned state, regional and national awards for his photojournalism.
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