What It's Really Like to Come Out as Transgender-By Michelle Hendley

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What It's Really Like to Come Out as Transgender

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by Michelle Hendley 9/03/15

As a kid growing up in small town Columbia, MO, I never met a trans person. I did not know there was even a word that described why I was always playing pretend and imagining myself as a girl. I only knew that I was not like other little boys my age and that my interests in dolls, dresses, and Disney princesses were not "normal." I was often teased and ridiculed for "acting like a girl," and I spent a lot of time getting lost in my own imagination to avoid judgment. It would not be until later in high school that I learned the word "transgender" or would even know that other people like me existed.

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Michele Hendley, a trans-woman, played Ricky in the movie "Boy Meets Girl."