Stephanie Mott Shares Her Journey, Speaks Out On Transgender Issues
By Susan B. Wilson
http://www.kcur.org/post/stephanie-mott-shares-her-journey-speaks-out-transgender-issuesThis statistic is part of the reason why Stephanie Mott, Executive Director of the Kansas Statewide Transgender Education Project is so involved in educating the public about transgender issues. KCUR's Susan Wilson talked to Stephanie about her journey.
Interview Highlights
"Something about having to hide who you are that innately tells you that there must be something wrong with it. And so there was this concept of believing that there was something wrong with me. I can tell you that as a child at 19 years old I spent hours sitting in the stairwell at our home looking through every volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica trying to find what was wrong with me, not something that described what was going on with me."
"It is like entering into a play and you enter into the play in the morning and you assume the part of this character that has been assigned to you. And this character is assigned to you on the basis of your biological sex, but it's not really who you are. So you enter into the play in the morning and you play the part of this character, this boy that wasn't me, even growing into a man that wasn't me. And you do it every day. And at night you come out of character and you dream for a little bit that maybe it will be different someday. But then the next morning you wake up and you enter into the same play and it picks up where it left off the night before..."
