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I have a confession to make: I haven’t always known I was a woman

And that’s okay for a transgender woman to admit

“How old were you when you first knew you were a girl?”

“Like 24?”

You might expect most transgender people to give a different answer to that question. Until recently, I assumed that all transgender people had always known. The more transgender people I…