T is for Transgender: Sabian Mignone by Sabian Mignone | Special Issues » The Pride Issue 2012 | July 11, 2012
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/t-is-for-transgender-sabian-mignone/Content?oid=4111062
by Jonathan BoncekSabian Mignone is a female-to-male transgendered individual. He is the founder of Wando High School's Gay-Straight Alliance and is a member of We Are Family. Since he's on staff at the Tribal Tribune, Wando's student newspaper, we invited Sabian to pen his own essay.
I'm the transgender guy.
That's how people see me at first. A real live transgender person. That guy who was born a girl. What an interesting person.
I don't mind when people think those things. Curiosity is only natural. But I do mind when they stop there and identify me as the transgender guy and nothing but the transgender guy, because I am more than that.
People don't see that at first. They only see the label of transgender. But as I spend more time with people, as they get to know me better, the more that label fades into the background and becomes just one more part of all the things that define me. Because I'm not just the transgender guy.
