Wendell Berry Comforted Me Through My Gender Transition

The late, great Wendell Berry found me at a unique time in my life: I was in the early stages of transitioning between genders.

Up until that point, part of me had always assumed that I wouldn’t connect with Berry’s writing because the people who recommended it to me were usually vaguely conservative men who wanted to live self-sufficient agrarian lifestyles. These people certainly had softer sensibilities than the more overtly militaristic conservatives I knew, but nonetheless, it sometimes felt that their idyllic worldviews and theologies didn’t have much room for people like me.