executive editor of the "washington post," has been executive editor of "the boston globe," very farseeing editor who promoted this story. i was fascinated by it. and i was contacted. i did know that they were being represented at the time, i summon i don't 30 years earlier in boston. she reached out to me because the family was getting a lot ofp publicity requests. a were uncomfortable with doing anything more than that. they wanted to protect their kids and have them grow up, have them a normal teenage life, but they knew that down the line after they graduate high schoolh they would want this story to bc told. she contacted me because she knew i'd written a book, and so this story came to me but i remember saying to my agent, this is fascinating. the fact they were identical twins is an important aspect conducts when the science and what we know about the brain and gender. th i said, but you think anyone is going to want to read a book about a transgender kid? that was five years ago and the world has changed dramatically since then. honestly it's a serendipitous publication of this. >>