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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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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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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In school I related to boys.
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People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.
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I've waited my whole life to be able to have body hair - but I never thought I'd have back hair. But what are you going to do, right?
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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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I came out around 25 publicly.
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I always had this idea that, 'Sure, I wished I was a boy and felt more like a boy and all of that.' But I wasn't, so I would deal with it. And I for some reason thought there were other lesbians that felt that way and that was just part of that community.
