Emery C. Walters Maui, HI Emery C. Walters was born Carol Forde, a name he soon knew didn't fit the boy inside. Transition was unknown back then; so he married and then bore and raised four children on his own. When his youngest child, his gay son, left the nest, Emery told Carol that she had to step aside, and he fully transitioned from female to male in 2001. Emery worked in county government and as a college writing tutor before retiring and becoming a gentleman author. He and his wife Robyn, herself raised mistakenly as a boy, live on Maui where they combine snorkeling, scuba diving, and v...