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Jacob Anderson-Minshall (b. September 14, 1967) is a transgender American author. Born female, Anderson-Minshall was raised as Susannah "Suzy" Minshall on a farm outside Inkom, Idaho. In high school, Anderson-Minshall spent a year in Germany as part of the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program. He later received a B.A. in Peace and Global Studies from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana and a Master's degree in Communication from Idaho State University.

In 1994, with his then lesbian partner Diane Anderson-Minshall and several friends, Anderson-Minshall co-founded the lesbian magazine Girlfriends, where he acted as Circulation Director and wrote articles for several years.

He then changed careers, becoming a park ranger until he was disabled in a work-related injury in 2003; at which point Anderson-Minshall returned to writing. As a freelance journalist, he has focused on environmental and LGBT issues and has written for numerous publications like Bitch and Curve magazines, SheWired.com and Windy City Times and Examiner.com, where he is the Portland Green Living expert.

From 2005-2009, Anderson-Minshall authored the syndicated column, "TransNation" TransNation, which ran in LGBT publications like San Francisco Bay Times, Windy City Times, and Boston's Bay Windows.

After identifying as a lesbian for nearly two decades, Anderson-Minshall came out as transgender in 2004 and began transitioning to male. He and his wife Diane were legally wed March 19, 2006 Together they co-author the Blind Eye mystery series (Blind Curves, Blind Leap and 2008 Lambda Literary Award Finalist Blind Faith) published by Bold Strokes Books. When he signed on with the publisher, Anderson-Minshall became the first man writing for the heretofore lesbian company.

Anderson-Minshall has essays in a number of anthologies including Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power (edited by Shira Tarrant) and Trans People in Love. His first short story, "Chinook," was published in the 2010 Lambda Literary Award finalist anthology Queer: Tales of the Rose City.

In 2008 Anderson-Minshall co-founded and co-hosts the talk radio show, Gender Blender, one of the few transgender-hosted radio shows in the United States, Gender Blender airs monthly on Portland, Oregon's KBOO 90.7 FM where he also assists with other LGBT programming.

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