"Gender is between your ears and not between your legs."
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"I've been embraced by a new community. That's what happens when you're finally honest about who you are; you find others like you."
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"I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff."
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"I want to create a place where trans people and our allies could come together to share experiences, information and ideas. Being transgender or loving someone who is transgender can be challenging in our society and I hope that members of this site will also use this space as a place to support and encourage each other. Together, we can strengthen our community and open the hearts and minds of others."
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"I wanted to show America a different kind of man. If there was someone like me when I was growing up, my whole life would have been different."
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"Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told."
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"When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?"
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"So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I was a lesbian, and didn't realize that that wasn't the case. It was the fact that I was a man and a heterosexual man. The issue wasn't my sexual orientation, but rather my gender identity."
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"I don't have the luxury of doing things privately."
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"Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid."
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"I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body."
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"For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that."
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"There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate."
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"I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys."
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"I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life."
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"I came out around 25 publicly."
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"It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother."
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"Being self-supporting is important to me."
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"As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender."
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"Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had."
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