Born in the wrong body. It’s a controversial statement that some agree with and some don’t — I look at this picture of a 7 year old girl looking happy. Gracie socially transitioned to a girl at the age of 4 years old. That’s the same age I told my mom that I didn’t feel like a boy. For me, that didn’t go so well. My mom…

When I’m feeling gender dysphoria, music takes me away to another universe. When I was four years old, I went to my mom and told her that something was wrong. I didn’t feel like a boy. The year was 1976. Like most parents back in those days faced with something…

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City. From what I saw in the comments section of a video on YouTube about this person, the uproar mostly seems to be about what people are calling “body mutilation.”

It’s painful. I don’t like having to conform to society’s expectations of me. What is the social expectations definition? Social expectations are defined as implicit rules that govern one’s reactions and beliefs in a way that is deemed acceptable by society. Social expectations are not just dependent on the individual…

I felt like something was “off” at 4 years old. I knew I didn’t feel like a boy. — Right now at this very moment I am having a gender dysphoria moment where when I looked in the mirror my brain took those signals of my appearance of being male and then set off a error code basically, leaving me no choice but to get “dolled up.” I know…

From about 2012–2015 I made a serious run at transitioning to female. And then I stopped. Back in 2012, I was really feeling gender dysphoria hard. I had enough of the intense feeling of needing to become a woman and I started down that road. I hated my beard so…

Things took a little bit longer to get done for me than usual. When we went to Mexico, we didn’t stay in a foofy resort. We rented a Airbnb right in the middle of a residential area. There wasn’t anybody waiting on us hand and foot like in the resorts…

I feel like I am starting to get some of my old strength back. I lost another 5 pounds in June! I’m making progress. It’s coming off fairly quickly but not too quickly. By the time my wife and I are ready to head off to live in Mexico next…

I know how I feel inside. I know what I look like to the world — I have this pair of blue canvas sneakers that look very similar to the classic Keds that every girl must own a pair of. I put them on today, along with a native American tribal-colored anklet and I thought, “wow is that cute!” …