I Came Out Around 25 Publicly.

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.

What Mom Cares About Most Is That I'm Happy, Healthy And Enjoying My Life.

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.

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.

People Who Don't Have Gender Dysphoria Aren't Going To Catch It By Watching Me Dance On Television.