Growing up Transgender: Stepping into the Light
Sometimes we never fully appreciate the dysfunctionality of our families until we are much older. By then, many years and decades of our lives have passed and we come to look back at our childhood with eyes anew, as if we were looking upon our lives as a different person than we were. My very wise 17 year old nephew once said to me that we each live multiple lives over the course of our lifetime. As we grow to learn about ourselves, we grow internally, both spiritually and intellectually. Our desires, goals and perspectives evolve as we become ever more aware and self conscious of the lives we have lived, the lives around us we have touched or that have touched us in some way, and as we evolve within ourselves. In looking back on my own childhood, I can sense it all anew from the perspective of having lived through it and grown into a person who has become self-aware of her own identity and the world around her. I can eerily look back upon my youth and truly feel detached from the