Connor Tintin with his birth daughter, Iona, attending Pride in Edinburgh, Scotland. Credit: COURTESY OF CONNOR TINLIN
Connor Tinlin with his birth daughter, Iona, attending Pride in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Connor Tinlin with his birth daughter, Iona, attending Pride in Edinburgh, Scotland. COURTESY OF CONNOR TINLIN

What are your PGP?

Connor Tinlin’s tour guides, a lesbian couple, asked the Scottish dad that question during a visit to Seattle in 2012. “PGP” stands for preferred gender pronouns. Tinlin, then a recently out trans man with the peach fuzz and a changing voice to prove it, was deeply moved.

“I could have cried,” Tinlin wrote in an e-mail from West Linton, a town near Edinburgh, where he lives. “It was, I don’t know, relief? I thought that I want to feel this good, that my child should feel this good.”

In August, Tinlin, 36, is returning to Seattle with Iona, his birth daughter, in order to attend Gender Odyssey, a three-day conference for transgender and gender-nonconforming people…

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