Transgender woman finds her way
By Jan Biles
Created December 19, 2010 at 4:09pm
http://cjonline.com/news/local/2010-12-19/transgender_woman_finds_her_wayWhen Steven Michael Mott was 13, his father told him that if he could swim 100 yards, he could go to the river on their Eudora farm by himself.
The adolescent never worked so hard to reach a goal, and within a short time, he proved to his father he was a capable swimmer.
Going to the river alone meant Steven could borrow his sisters' clothing and be his "true self" without the fear of being discovered and punished, saying, "I didn't have words for it, but by age 7, I needed to express myself as a girl."