What Mom Cares About Most Is That

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.

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.

Obviously The Transgender Movement Has Not Progressed In The Way That The Gay And Lesbian Movement Has. But Im An Activist - Thats Just The Kind Of Person I Am.

As You Get Older It's More Confusing. Suddenly, There's More Pressure To Fit In To Your Assigned Gender.