Tynan Power
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Tynan Power (born 1970)[1] is a progressive Muslim activist who advocates for gender equality and transgender rights in Muslim communities.[2]
Tynan Power was born in 1970 in Washington, D.C., to Carol Cargill[3] and James Power.[4] His mother was an applied linguistics professor and his father was a federal mediator and, previously, a Catholic priest. The couple divorced when Power was a baby.[5]
Power spent most of his life in Tampa, Florida, before moving to Massachusetts in 1999.[citation needed] He was raised Catholic, but converted to Islam in 1985 at age fourteen.[citation needed] Although he was designated female at birth, he recognized that he identified as male at an early age and transitioned from female to male as an adult.[6]
Power attended the University of South Florida in Tampa briefly in 1987, but moved to Morocco partway through his undergraduate education. After moving back to the United States, he returned to the University of South Florida and received his Bachelor of Arts in English in 1995. In 2000, at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg, he received his Master of Arts in Mass Communication-Journalism.[citation needed]