Portrait series shows transgender Mizzou student before, after transitionhttp://college.usatoday.com/2016/06/22/portrait-series-shows-transgender-mizzou-student-before-after-transition/College/USA Today/By Ginger Hervey, University of Missouri 11:30 am EDT June 22, 2016
"When you look back on your high school pictures, it's easy to see how much you've changed. For some, the changes are more striking.
Most transgender people transition after age 18, according to a 2011 study by the National Center for Transgender Equality and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. In fact, it reports,95% of male-to-female and 92% of female-to-male transition after they've finished up their teen years.
Cole Young, a rising junior at the University of Missouri, knows this story well; he transitioned from female to male in college. But when he looks back at photos, he says, he sees the person he no longer is. That's why he decided, as a "really a selfish thing," he says, to do something about it."
