Transgender: The journey to identity

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Transgender: The journey to identity
Article | 03.08.12 | By Alexandria Fisher

http://winona360.winona.edu/winona360/article/transgender-journey-identity

She wears black knee-high boots over skinny jeans topped with a rainbow sweater. Her long, brown, layered hair lightly bounces on her shoulders as she struts through campus. To most, she is just another 19-year-old woman -- until she walks into the men's bathroom.

Ashley, a sophomore Winona State University, in Winona, Minn., is part of a small population of transgender youth. While there are diverse forms of gender expression, transgenders do not identify with the gender roles they were born into. While teens and young adults are developing their identities, young transgenders add gender to the mix.