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Title: To Be Young And Trans
Post by: Shana A on June 25, 2009, 07:29:54 AM
Post by: Shana A on June 25, 2009, 07:29:54 AM
To Be Young And Trans
By Lara Loewenstein • on June 24, 2009
http://www.scoop44.com/2009/06/24/to-be-young-and-trans/ (http://www.scoop44.com/2009/06/24/to-be-young-and-trans/)
Smoking a cigarette outside of his local Starbucks on a Friday afternoon, Miles Cox looks like the typical 19-year-old with a rebellious streak. He is dressed in jeans, a leather jacket over a white shirt, dark sunglasses and Chuck Taylors, and is nonchalantly reclining in his chair as I walk up and introduce myself. His voice is a little high for a 19-year-old, and he thinks his eyes are a bit feminine. I disagree with the latter, but Miles is very conscious of these details. He is conscious of anything that gives away that he was physically born a girl.
"You have to change your body language a lot," he says. "I changed the way I walked, and I changed the way I dressed. I tried to do everything I could to fit in." Miles soon takes off his sunglasses and relaxes. It is obvious that he enjoys talking about the process that he was–and still is–going through.
By Lara Loewenstein • on June 24, 2009
http://www.scoop44.com/2009/06/24/to-be-young-and-trans/ (http://www.scoop44.com/2009/06/24/to-be-young-and-trans/)
Smoking a cigarette outside of his local Starbucks on a Friday afternoon, Miles Cox looks like the typical 19-year-old with a rebellious streak. He is dressed in jeans, a leather jacket over a white shirt, dark sunglasses and Chuck Taylors, and is nonchalantly reclining in his chair as I walk up and introduce myself. His voice is a little high for a 19-year-old, and he thinks his eyes are a bit feminine. I disagree with the latter, but Miles is very conscious of these details. He is conscious of anything that gives away that he was physically born a girl.
"You have to change your body language a lot," he says. "I changed the way I walked, and I changed the way I dressed. I tried to do everything I could to fit in." Miles soon takes off his sunglasses and relaxes. It is obvious that he enjoys talking about the process that he was–and still is–going through.