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I was assigned female at birth and I was named Jennifer. I hated my name. When I was growing up I would go by my favorite character’s names or my last name. I have always disliked how names and basically everything in society has a “gender.” In my opinion, I find it absurd that things such as certain sitting positions, sports, and colors have genders associated with them. Based off these stereotypes, I mainly did stereotypically masculine things. I love the color blue, I play ice hockey, and I hate makeup. Me liking blue and ice hockey are not what made me the guy I am today. What made me the guy I am today is taking the first step in my transition by realizing I am male. When I was in primary school I thought was a boy, but I was afraid if …show more content…
When I finally knew what bi meant I was disgusted. My mom would always make fun of homosexuals and feminine guys; therefore, I grew up thinking it was wrong to change your gender or like someone of the same sex. I started to hate myself for wanting to be a guy. My opinions on the LGBTQ+ community changed when my best friend became oddly obsessed witb the LGBTQ+ community. My best friend became obsessed with the song Same Love by Macklemore and rainbows. She taught me it was okay to be LGBTQ+. Then one day my mom came home from the super market and said something along the lines of, “I saw this thing in the supermarket. I swear it was a girl till I heard it speak. It was man and I swear it had more makeup on than me.” I knew my mom was referring to a trans woman in a very disrespectful way. Before then I knew hardly anything about people who are trans. I decided to research trans people because I was curious and I soon discovered the term FTM. This discovery made me wonder if I was FTM, so I decided to get my haircut. After getting my haircut I knew I was defiantly no female. I loved my hair being short and for the first time I thought I was good

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