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

"I think that empathy and awareness is powerful and good and it can also be incredibly painful at times" says Trystan Reese, 33 of Portland. Trystan and his husband have two children and their parenting journey has been featured on WNYC's podcast "The Longest Shortest Time" and in People Magazine.

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