Her Aunt Let Her Be Herself. As A Transgender Woman, She Still Had To 'Play The Game'
Dee Westenhauser came out as transgender last year. At StoryCorps, she remembers "Aunt Yaya," the first person to accept her for who she truly was.
Growing up in a Catholic family in El Paso, Texas, during the 1950s, Dee Westenhauser had a hard time fitting in. "I knew I was a girl," says Westenhauser. But she couldn't share her true identity with anyone in her family.
Last year, at the age of 63, Westenhauser came out as a
