Introductory presentation by Dr. Norman P. Spack starts at 02:32 and runs 31 minutes. Conversation between Dr. Spack, Jonas Maines, and Nicole Maines begins at 33:39.

ON BEING HUMAN (series title)
A Reno Family Foundation Symposium:
Becoming Nicole
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Cahners Theater | Museum of Science, Boston

In Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amy Ellis Nutt chronicles the story of the Maines family, a middle class American family that is ordinary but for one exception: one of their identical twin sons, given the name Wyatt at birth, began identifying as a girl at the age of two. Jonas was all boy. But Wyatt was just the opposite, interested only in girls’ clothes and toys. The family struggled with what this might mean, initially hoping that Wyatt was passing through a phase. However, by age five, Wyatt’s inner conflict began tearing him and the family apart. The Maines family sought out Dr. Norman Spack, co-founder of the nation’s first clinic to treat transgender children, and began a journey full of discovery and change.

Nicole and Jonas Maines, identical twins
Norman P. Spack, MD, pediatric endocrinologist and co-founder of the Gender Management Service clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital and associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School

Funding provided by the Reno Family Foundation Fund. This program is free thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute.