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My Transgender Life: Denial, Betrayal, Abandonment and Other Monsters Under the

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August 04, 2015, 09:46:56 PM
My Transgender Life: Denial, Betrayal, Abandonment and Other Monsters Under the Bed

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/grace-anne-stevens/my-transgender-life-denia_b_7929706.html?utm_hp_ref=transgender

The Huffington Post/by Grace Anne Stevens Posted:  08/04/2015 7:07 pm EDT    Updated:  2 hours ago

"It is said that by the time we are 7 years old our pre-frontal cortex is pretty much wired to the rest of our brain. It is around this time that most of us begin to understand that there really are not monsters that live under our beds.

Or are there?
...

It wasn't much later than when I was 7 I knew that there was a monster still lurking under my bed. I knew that I could never tell anyone about it, because by that time everyone knew that monsters didn't exist. This was long past those days when I was 4 or 5 and loved those Sunday mornings when I would watch my father shave his pencil thin mustache and he let me use the Gillette safety razor with no double-sided blade in it. I was going to be just like dad!"
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