I remember one parent talking about the concern over what if their child later regretted transition, and I was drafting a letter in my head, that I never wrote, where I talked about knowing that if I’d had anyone who could have heard me as a child, they might have thought I was a transgender boy, and if I’d transitioned as such, even though I realized that was not a complete picture of who I was, I still would not have regretted it. I would watch these videos over and over. About 10 years ago - thanks, actually, to social media - I began seeing videos of programs on transgender kids, starting with the Barbara Walters piece on Jazz Jennings. Lesbian community and culture *was* the place where gender nonconformity was more the rule than the exception. I identified as a lesbian, since about age 20, and yes, that’s about “who you want to have sex with, not who you want to have sex as,” but for me, the two were not so different. I had different words for it at different ages, but only in my head. “I think that the young people who have been discussing gender in a new way, and trying to identify their own, and learning to talk about it, are doing important work.”Īt what age did you realize you may be trans or nonbinary?
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