“No one has affirmed my gender identity quite like Mike Pence. On my last day, I gave him a letter. I wrote: ‘I’m a transgender CIA officer, a wife and mother—and I served the Vice President. Anything is possible in America.’ I told him many people at the CIA hadn’t believed that a trans officer like me could serve someone like him.
“‘Well,’ he said, ‘I’m glad I passed the test.’”