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i actually was born in queens, new york. i was there for five years until we moved straight from there to texas, and we haven t moved anywhere ever since. as a kid, i definitely wore a lot of boyish clothes. i did not enjoy wearing skirts, dresses, all that. maybe that was early symptoms of my dysphoria. gender dysphoria is the discomfort and distress in individuals whose gender identity is different from what they were assigned at birth. i didn t even find out what lgbtq even meant until my middle school years, when i had access to the internet through my phone. no adults ever taught me about it or told me anything about it. bisexual, transgender, queer.
overlapping voices. repelled by the mere - notion of homosexuality. gay couples on the steps of city hall. and every day it gets better. being here in texas, it s part of, like, the bible belt so there s a lot of conservative people here that maybe don t agree with the lgbtq lifestyle. in early school days, like, elementary to middle school, they don t really teach you a lot, you know, only about the reproductive system and safe sex between straight couples. and, literally, that s it. no gay stuff. nuh uh. that s. .. you can t, you shouldn t, you can t do that. my dysphoria started to manifest around the start of freshman year, i d say.
you can t do that. my dysphoria started to manifest around the start of freshman year, i d say. it s just a really uncomfy feeling that, like. it feels like it s, like, clawing at the back of my neck and itjust won t go away. at the time, my hair was about, like, this to this long. it was, like, really long. it was really heavy and it was actually causing me neck pain. so, i was like, huh, i want to get my hair cut. i would use that reasoning almost as, like, a cover up excuse for, deep down, why i actually really wanted my hair cut. over time, the feeling got stronger and stronger, then i started realising, i think there s something different here at play. basically, i got it all chopped off. when we went inside the car, i immediately started, like, bawling.
in early school days, like, elementary to middle school, they don t really teach you a lot, you know, only about the reproductive system and safe sex between straight couples. and, literally, that s it. no gay stuff. nuh uh. that s. .. you can t, you shouldn t, you can t do that. my dysphoria started to manifest around the start of freshman year, i d say. it s just a really uncomfy feeling that, like. it feels like it s like clawing at the back of my neck and itjust won t go away. at the time, my hair was about, like, this to this long. it was, like, really long. it was really heavy and it was