I had a deeply troubled trans employee that I had a great deal of difficulty getting to do meaningful work, largely because of his inner conflicts that I didn't pay attention to and he certainly didn't divulge. I wonder if he had written a book about his conflict like Terry, he might have dealt with it better. After we both were fired together, I tried to keep in touch, but he has faded from my radar, and now has given himself a female name.

Coincidentally, last night I watched a movie, The Man with the Answers. The story followed any Olympic level diver living with his grandmother in Greece. When his grandmother died, he went looking for his mother in either northern Italy or Switzerland. Along the way, the man with the answers, a thieving vagrant, spotted him for what he was, a homosexual, and they had a wild ride to his mother.

Sorry for the spoiler. But the emotions during the movie probably paralleled Terry's story.

Ron