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Inside Out: Trans doc She's a Boy I Knew

Started by Shana A, May 08, 2008, 06:34:11 AM

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May 08, 2008, 06:34:11 AM
Inside Out: Trans doc She's a Boy I Knew
AUDIENCE FAVORITE / The honesty of Gwen Haworth & family

Denise Sheppard / Xtra / Thursday, May 08, 2008

http://www.xtra.ca/public/viewstory.aspx?AFF_TYPE=3&STORY_ID=4727&PUB_TEMPLATE_ID=2

     NOT ALONE. In her amazing video She's a Boy I Knew, Gwen Haworth documents her own transition and the reaction of her family.     
At a time when small children are thinking about their first day of school and how to ride a bike, Gwen Haworth (who was at the time a young boy named Steven) knew that her gender identity was awry. Even at that oft-innocent age her instincts were to keep those desires secret from everyone, something she kept to herself for more than two decades. "I've been aware of this since I was four," says Haworth. "That meant 23 years of keeping this secret hidden, 23 years of self-hate and internalized transphobia."
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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