It’s almost 6 pm in Stockholm and Caroline Farberger is on her way to a dinner engagement, so we do a Zoom call while she drives into the city. Farberger’s story is familiar to those in Sweden. On Thursday evening, September 13, 2018, she left work, where she was chief executive of ICA insurance, as Carl – and returned the next day as Caroline. A 49-year-old white person in the heteronormative world of finance, Farberger’s photo appeared on the front page of one of the country’s leading business publications. It ran an eight-page spread on her transition from male to…
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