Navigating Gender Transition as a Quaker
In one of the most viewed videos of 2025, Willa Taber speaks about processing the emotional aftershocks of Donald Trump’s re-election when, shortly upon taking office, he signed an executive order that, in essence, made her identity as a transgender woman illegal.
“Even in that numbness and shock,” she says, “my response was to take my Trans Pride flag out and put it on my porch—saying, ‘I am here, I’m not going anywhere, and I’m not going to hide.’” Willa also reflects on her late-in-life transition: “Joy was my guidepost through my transition. . . . I realized that at the age of 70, I was too old to postpone joy.”
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Produced by Layla Cuthrell
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