Transgender clients find their voices

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Transgender clients find their voices
by Sarah Ferris
Hatchet Reporter

Issue: 12/6/10

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When Stephen Temmermand was in seventh grade, a school psychologist asked the New Jersey native to draw a self-portrait.

He drew a girl.

"That's when I realized I wasn't who I thought I was," said Temmermand, who legally changed her name to Caroline in September. "And it scared the heck out of me."

Forty years later, Temmermand began to transition from living as a male to living as a female. Despite the changes she made, Temmermand still felt there wasn't a congruency between how she looked and how she sounded.