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    For This Transgender 18-Year-Old, Queerness Is Synonymous With Happiness

    Kaysen Ford and their mom, Jennifer Sumner, reflect on milestones and struggles since their 2015 StoryCorps conversation. "Being happy is not in spite of being queer," Ford says. "It is a part of it."
    by Kerrie Hillman Jun 25, 2021 2 minutes
    Kaysen Ford, right, reflects during a StoryCorps conversation with their mother, Jennifer Sumner, on years of milestones — and struggles — while growing up transgender.

    Kaysen Ford, who is transgender and now identifies as nonbinary, is a newly minted high school graduate.

    Ford returned to StoryCorps this month with their mother to reflect on their conversation from 2015.

    Back then, Ford told their mom, Jennifer Sumner, about

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