But the main thing I thought when Kay told me her story was: ‘Here’s the shoeshine boy.’ Supposedly, shortly before the 1929 stock market crash that started the Great Depression, a shoeshine boy offered stock tips to Joe Kennedy (JFK’s father), and the story is often cited by market-watchers when they think that a bubble inflated by unsophisticated retail investors is about to pop. Similarly, trans identification has moved outwards from the highly gender non-conforming and dysphoric, through the troubled and unhappy, to those who are a little intense and spend a lot of time online. With luck,
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