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gender transition Charley Dean Sayers’ debut photography book November seventeenth captures her gender confirmation surgery on her own terms. Here, she speaks to Nicola Dinan about the project November 17th will leave you wondering: why should happiness demand a lot suffering? In her debut book of photography, Charley Dean Sayers, 23, documents her gender confirmation surgery, which she underwent three months after her 18th birthday. The book spans Sayers’ five weeks in Chon Buri, Thailand. It’s a portal into an especially intimate period of Sayers’ life, and of mental and physical tumult. As I moved through the photographs, diary entries of Sayers and her mother, messages sent to friends, I often felt like more of an intruder than a reader. The nice irony...