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Kris/Damien

Posted by ulla on Wednesday, July 29, 2009, In : Transgendered 


Country & City:
St. John's, NL, Canada
Name/nickname: Kris/Damien
Age: 16
Gender: Boy, Guy
What did you come out as (gay, bi, transgendered, use any terms you like here)? At first I came out as gay (never lesbian) and then trans
What other words would you use to describe yourself? Eccentric, childish, impish, dashing, charming, jackass, sock monkey, trannyboy
How old were you when you first realized your identity?
Well apparently I was informing my parents that I was a boy since I could talk, but a...

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Drik

Posted by ulla on Saturday, February 28, 2009, In : Transgendered 
Country & city: Stockholm, Sweden
Name/nickname: Drik
Age: 20
Gender: FtM Boidyke wannabe fag.
What did you come out as (gay, bi, transgendered)? Bi > transgendered > pansexual
What other words would you use to describe yourself? Queer, polyamorous, slut
How old were you when you first realized your identity? Uhm, 13 (bi) and 16 (trans)
How old were you when you first told someone? 13
Did you plan it? If so, how? Not really, it just happened.
What made you choose that person to tell? I told my mom cau...

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Vic

Posted by ulla on Saturday, February 28, 2009, In : Transgendered 
Name or Nick Name : Vic
Country or City you are from: : Canada
Your Age : 19
Your Gender : Male
What did you come out as? : Queer
What did you come out as? : Transgendered
What other words would you use to describe yourself? : eccentric, nerd, artist, animal lover, feminist, athlete
How old were you when you first realised your identity? : 19
How old were you when you first told someone? : 19
Did you plan it? If so, how? : Nope, he just happened to be online when I came out to myself.
What made you cho...

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Genderkid

Posted by ulla on Saturday, February 28, 2009, In : Transgendered 
Country & city: Argentina
Name/nickname: genderkid
Age: 17
Gender: tough question! Genderqueer, maybe male.
What did you come out as (gay, bi, transgendered, use any terms you like here)?: first as lesbian, now as FTM transgender.
What other words would you use to describe yourself? boy, guy, transman, queer
How old were you when you first realized your identity? I realized there was something queer about me when I was 14, and I thought I was lesbian. At 16 I started identifying as trans after seei...

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Cid/Oration

Posted by ulla on Saturday, February 28, 2009, In : Transgendered 

Country & city: Boston, MA, US

Name/nickname: Cid/Oration on WordPress
Age: 20
Gender: Trans male
What did you come out as (gay, bi, transgendered, use any terms you like here)? Initially bisexual, later, transgendered and adjusting the original label to ‘queer.’
What other words would you use to describe yourself? Queer, kinky, poly transfag.
How old were you when you first realized your identity? Very young, on both counts, though I suppressed my gender identity far more than my sexual ...


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b

Posted by ulla on Saturday, February 28, 2009, In : Transgendered 
Country & city: finland, helsinki (i am originally from warner robins, georgia in the u.s.)
Name/nickname: b
Age: 27
Gender: male
What did you come out as (gay, bi, transgendered, use any terms you like here)? transgendered
What other words would you use to describe yourself? queer, pansexual, trannyboy, empath
How old were you when you first realized your identity? when i was 5 i told people i was going to grow up to be a boy. i always knew i was a boy, but i didnt understand what was wrong ...

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Charl Marais

Posted by ulla on Friday, February 27, 2009, In : Transgendered 

Country & city: Cape Town, South Africa

Name/nickname: Charl Marais (Charmd)

Age: 50 (soon)

Gender: Male

What did you come out as (gay, bi, transgendered)? First as Lesbian, but when I understood more I realized I was Transgendered and went into stealth mode.

How old were you when you first realized your identity? Very young

How old were you when you first told someone? Seventeen

Did you plan it? If so, how? No

What made you choose that person to tell? She was a Rape Crisis Counsellor

Can y...


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Tarald Stein

Posted by ulla on Friday, February 27, 2009, In : Transgendered 

Country & city: Norway, Tromsø
Name/nickname: Tarald Stein
Age: 30
Gender: TransMan
What did you come out as (gay, bi, transgendered, use any terms you like here)? Both as gay and transsexual
What other words would you use to describe yourself? Writer, mother, intellectual, poet
How old were you when you first realized your identity? It sounds silly, but I first identified as gay when I was a teen. Just couldn’t make sense of it because my body and everyone around me told me I was a girl a...


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TeeKay

Posted by ulla on Monday, February 23, 2009, In : Transgendered 
Name or Nick Name : TeeKay
Country or City you are from: : Thunder Bay
Your Age : 20
Your Gender : Female
What did you come out as? : Gay
What did you come out as? : Transgendered
What other words would you use to describe yourself? :
How old were you when you first realised your identity? : 19
How old were you when you first told someone? : 20
Did you plan it? If so, how? : Not really planned, just sort of happened.
What made you choose that person to tell? : I was drunk and it just sort of ...

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JP

Posted by ulla on Monday, February 23, 2009, In : Transgendered 
Name or Nick Name : JP
Country or City you are from: : USA
Your Age : 16
Your Gender : Male
What did you come out as? : Transgendered
What other words would you use to describe yourself? : I am a musical cathartic kinda guy, ya know? Music is my outlet. Sometimes I just bang around, being all bitter at the world, but sometimes I actually make beautiful music.
How old were you when you first realised your identity? : 4
How old were you when you first told someone? : 15
Did you plan it? If so, ...

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Sophie

Posted by ulla on Sunday, February 22, 2009, In : Transgendered 

Country & city: The Netherlands, Nijmegen

Name/nickname: Sophie

Age: 26

Gender: female

What did you come out as (gay, bi, transgendered, use any terms you like here)? transgender

What other words would you use to describe yourself? individual, woman, lesbian, friend daughter, sister, grand-daughter, student, liberal, activist, European, cosmopolitan,

How old were you when you first realized your identity? about 9 years old

How old were you when you first told someone? at age 20

Did you plan...


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Sophie

Posted by ulla on Sunday, February 22, 2009, In : Transgendered 

Country & city: The Netherlands, Nijmegen

Name/nickname: Sophie

Age: 26

Gender: female

What did you come out as (gay, bi, transgendered, use any terms you like here)? transgender

What other words would you use to describe yourself? individual, woman, lesbian, friend daughter, sister, grand-daughter, student, liberal, activist, European, cosmopolitan,

How old were you when you first realized your identity? about 9 years old

How old were you when you first told someone? at age 20

Did you plan...


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Samanth0r

Posted by ulla on Sunday, February 22, 2009, In : Transgendered 
Name or Nick Name : Samanth0r
Country or City you are from: : Australia
Your Age : 23
Your Gender : Trans Womyn
What did you come out as? : Transgendered
What other words would you use to describe yourself? : Queer. I love that word.
Lesbian.
Dyke. This is actually my main identification.
How old were you when you first realised your identity? : around 19
How old were you when you first told someone? : Not till I was 21
Did you plan it? If so, how? : Well its a long story but I took my parent...

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