True LGBTQ Stories: Growing Up Transgender in Mississippi: 'I've Been Put in Tra

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Nathan Manske
Founder and Executive Director, I'm From Driftwood

True LGBTQ Stories: Growing Up Transgender in Mississippi: 'I've Been Put in Trash Cans' (VIDEO)
Posted: 01/30/2012 1:19 pm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-manske/transgender-bullying_b_1235537.html

Krystal Summers, from Laurel, Miss., was once a little girl trapped in a little boy's body. From the time she was very young, she and those around her knew she was different:

    I changed schools when I was in sixth grade. The first day of school, the teacher took the whole class to the bathroom, and you divide up and go to your respective bathrooms. I, of course, went into the boys' bathroom, and the teacher ran in behind me and told me, "Oh, you're in the wrong bathroom, you're in the wrong bathroom." And it was so embarrassing because all the kids were laughing at me.

The ridicule didn't stop there, even as Krystal grew older:

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She has done well for herself, as her numerous YouTube videos prove.

... Not to mention her starring role in Ticked Off ->-bleeped-<-s With Knives