Storytelling: Inside out: Transgender stories: OHSU's transgender health program

"They're very proud. It's not like a weird thing to them," says Zach Ellis, 49, a transman from Portland and father to two eight-year-old girls. "I think it’s important to have somebody like me who’s not---who’s different than the other guys. It feels like an asset, not like a liability anymore. They’re both lucky to have a dad like me, and that’s taken me a while to feel that way."

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