Being tall should not be a hang up for transition

Christine Penn
5 min readFeb 5, 2024
Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash

I’m 6'5" tall, and yes, I will admit that it caused some hesitation/used it as an excuse for a while not to transition. How many 6 feet plus women are out there? Certainly, there are far more 6 feet plus men; right? And, while that may be true statistically, what I was missing is that there are plenty of tall women out there as well — I was just not noticing them. Rare, maybe, but not necessarily…

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Christine Penn

Trans woman, parent, cyclist, software engineer, author, chef, and many other things.