Born identity: Locals speak openly about the transgender process

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Born identity: Locals speak openly about the transgender process
The Herald
By LISA CRAWFORD WATSON
April 3, 2009


http://www.montereyherald.com/living/ci_12062589.


Something was very the matter. She didn't know what, at first, and didn't understand it all at once. Rather, it kind of came to her over time, like the realization that English isn't actually a universal language, the United States is not at the center of every classroom map, and airbrushing has a lot to do with anorexia.
She was born on the Monterey Peninsula, the second daughter in an Italian family without sons. Her parents named her Angelic, which may be how they saw her. Or perhaps it was more about hope.

By the time she was 4, maybe 5 years old, Angelic Cricchio identified herself as a boy. It wasn't that she wanted to be like them or that she needed to become one. She got that she already was. There were no questions and no angst; what she saw in boys, she saw in herself. And, essentially, she was comfortable with it.