--- title: Wayne Maines | TIME description: Wayne Maines' family is featured in the bookBecoming Nicole: The Transformation of An American Family. canonical: https://time.com/author/wayne-maines/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/wayne-maines/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Wayne Maines ## Wayne Maines _Wayne Maines' family is featured in the book_[Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of An American Family](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812995414/?tag=timecom-20). ## Wayne Maines *  Oct 24, 2016 ### [What I Learned Teaching Police About LGBT Rights](https://time.com/4515299/community-policing/) Community policing is a two-way street [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 20, 2016 ### [I Left the GOP For the Sake of My Daughter](https://time.com/4415598/republican-father-lgbt-rights/) The party's platform is an assault on my family's happiness [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 1, 2016 ### [What Abraham Lincoln Can Teach President Obama's Critics About Equality](https://time.com/4353641/abraham-lincoln-equality-lessons/) My transgender daughter should have the same rights as other Americans [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 26, 2016 ### [My Transgender Daughter Taught Me Courage—and Patriotism](https://time.com/4300013/north-carolina-bathroom-bill-fear/) Bathroom bills are just a show of fear [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 2, 2015 ### [My Transgender Daughter Deserves the Same Rights as Your Children](https://time.com/4096479/houston-equal-rights-ordinance-wayne-maines/) 'I had to watch my children suffer before I realized that transgender youth exist, and they need our... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/wayne-maines/","name":"Wayne Maines"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/wayne-maines/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/wayne-maines/"},"name":"Wayne Maines","jobTitle":null,"description":"Wayne Maines' family is featured in the bookBecoming Nicole: The Transformation of An American Family.","url":"https://time.com/author/wayne-maines/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```