The Mental and Medical Sides of Transgender

[Shana A]

The Mental and Medical Sides of Transgender
   
http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=9346263

Montreal - November 13, 2008

Christa Hoisington can barely utter her birth name. It still bothers her to this day.

"It just didn't feel right," she says.

It didn't make sense to her. Gary is a boy's name. And Christa says she knew, even as a child, she wasn't a boy.

So, in August of 2001 she legally changed her name. Christa was 49 years old, but says she felt reborn. Gary was officially gone and Christa could live full time as a woman.