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Author's experience with her own transgender child inspires new novel

What happens when a person decides their gender at birth is not that one they were meant to be? If that person is a child, the question has ramifications for everyone in the family. Marcie Sillman speaks with Laurie Frankel about her new book, "This Is How It Always Is." The novel tells the story of a young transgender girl. Frankel talksabout the parallels between her own life and the family in the novel.

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