"Every day, I was afraid for my sister. The world, the way it is, most people wouldn't accept who she was."
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_10573170By Monte Whaley
9/28/2008
BRIGHTON — Angie Zapata's life was becoming more complicated and dangerous by the day.
As she neared her 19th birthday, she needed to shave daily to keep up appearances. Her Adam's apple was growing larger, an emerging tip-off that Angie was not exactly whom she claimed to be.
Angie was restless. She needed money for cosmetology school and for counseling to prepare her for hormone treatments so her breasts would develop.