Transgender teen talks about life in school
By Rachel Welte
Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 8:35 p.m.
http://www.coloradoconnection.com/news/story.aspx?id=418668COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- Alex Roberson is a senior at Wasson High School. He "came out" two years ago, when he was 16, as "trans" or transgender.
He said it was not and has not been easy.
"To me basically it is feeling like I was born in the wrong body, like I was not supposed to be born a girl but rather a boy," Roberson said. "I mean I get treated like an outcast at school. They do not come near me and it is weird in the locker rooms. I do not even change there anymore, and I do not use the bathrooms at school because I need a special pass to use the faculty bathroom."
