The New York Times :
For most people, the pandemic lockdowns will be remembered as a time that shrank our worlds, stripping away most of life as we knew it. For Gina Chua, the executive editor of Reuters, it was when her world opened up.
Chua, 60, transitioned genders in 2020, using the time away from the office to, as she describes it, “grow into this skin.” On Dec 18, she wrote to her colleagues at Reuters to inform them of the change.
“For some time now I’ve been on a journey,” she said in the email. “It’s mostly been private, internal and exploratory, but it’s time to move beyond that and mark a new milestone in that passage. I’m transgender. And beginning today I’ll be living and presenting as what I know to be my true self 100% of the time.”
Chua is perhaps the most senior transgender journalist in the country. She said that she was speaking publicly because “it’s good to just have people be able to say, ‘Here is an example of somebody who can transition and not get fired.'”
