"I was able to get a second letter. And that was all the surgeon required in order to agree to remove my testicles and perform a penectomy and a vaginoplasty on an 18 year old."

Today's bonus podcast for paid subscribers is the first 40 minutes of my marathon  conversation with Corinna Cohn. Toward the end of that podcast, I referred to the beginning of our conversation as "tense." I don't mean that we were in any way hostile, just that it took a little while for us to fully establish our rapport and for the conversation to bec…