Brenda Bradford Ward

Ms. Ward grew up in a house full of music and a family focused on small-town retail banking. She too devoted herself to finance for decades with a finance-concentration MBA and a career in financial services. But she always felt a compulsion to pretend secretly to be someone else---suppressed. It took decades for her to approach the transition. Once begun, the transition was unstoppable. Years later, she examined her experience in The Fallacy of Assignable Gender. Beginning a new life …