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Title: AAs on Raising Awareness About the “T” in LGBT
Post by: Natasha on March 18, 2011, 09:34:49 PM
Post by: Natasha on March 18, 2011, 09:34:49 PM
AAs on Raising Awareness About the "T" in LGBT
http://www.pacificcitizen.org/site/Default.aspx?tabid=55&selectmoduleid=373&ArticleID=826&reftab=36&title=AAs_on_Raising_Awareness_About_the_%E2%80%9CT%E2%80%9D_in_LGBT (http://www.pacificcitizen.org/site/Default.aspx?tabid=55&selectmoduleid=373&ArticleID=826&reftab=36&title=AAs_on_Raising_Awareness_About_the_%E2%80%9CT%E2%80%9D_in_LGBT)
3/18/11
By Nalea J. Ko, Reporter
Growing up in California, Aiden Aizumi did not always feel comfortable with the role he was born into. Adopted from Japan with his brother, Stefen Lawrence, Aiden Aizumi grew up in Arcadia, Calif.
He was born as a girl in Japan, and named Ashley Akemi. But in 2008 he would openly express his desire to transition to a male.
"I never really related to being a girl, or having a female body," Aiden Aizumi explained. "While everybody around me was becoming really proud and comfortable with their body, I was becoming more uncomfortable. I think I learned a lot from being raised socially as a woman, but I never felt like one."
But before Aiden Aizumi, 22, came forward about his desire to transition to a male, he struggled in his own skin.
http://www.pacificcitizen.org/site/Default.aspx?tabid=55&selectmoduleid=373&ArticleID=826&reftab=36&title=AAs_on_Raising_Awareness_About_the_%E2%80%9CT%E2%80%9D_in_LGBT (http://www.pacificcitizen.org/site/Default.aspx?tabid=55&selectmoduleid=373&ArticleID=826&reftab=36&title=AAs_on_Raising_Awareness_About_the_%E2%80%9CT%E2%80%9D_in_LGBT)
3/18/11
By Nalea J. Ko, Reporter
Growing up in California, Aiden Aizumi did not always feel comfortable with the role he was born into. Adopted from Japan with his brother, Stefen Lawrence, Aiden Aizumi grew up in Arcadia, Calif.
He was born as a girl in Japan, and named Ashley Akemi. But in 2008 he would openly express his desire to transition to a male.
"I never really related to being a girl, or having a female body," Aiden Aizumi explained. "While everybody around me was becoming really proud and comfortable with their body, I was becoming more uncomfortable. I think I learned a lot from being raised socially as a woman, but I never felt like one."
But before Aiden Aizumi, 22, came forward about his desire to transition to a male, he struggled in his own skin.
Title: Re: AAs on Raising Awareness About the “T” in LGBT
Post by: Vicky on March 22, 2011, 12:28:42 PM
Post by: Vicky on March 22, 2011, 12:28:42 PM
It seems that I have real neighbors with the TG problem since I live in the same city they do. I do not know that I have met the Aizumi's but I can appreciate the hell that he would have gone through in that school system. It is academically one of the best systems in the state, but the social climate there is one of cliques along the ethnic lines, and people that do not absolutely fit into one of the clique patterns are out-castes of the lowest order. A "stench in paradise" is a phrase that I have often heard about what happens there socially.
Title: Re: AAs on Raising Awareness About the “T” in LGBT
Post by: aiden.FTM on March 24, 2011, 06:31:37 PM
Post by: aiden.FTM on March 24, 2011, 06:31:37 PM
Hey Vicky
I would love to meet up sometime. Oh, And this is Aiden from the article! :)
I live in pasadena now, but I'm always visiting my parents so maybe we can grab coffee or something. :)
Thank you for the support.
I would love to meet up sometime. Oh, And this is Aiden from the article! :)
I live in pasadena now, but I'm always visiting my parents so maybe we can grab coffee or something. :)
Thank you for the support.
Title: Re: AAs on Raising Awareness About the “T” in LGBT
Post by: Dana Lane on March 25, 2011, 05:41:34 AM
Post by: Dana Lane on March 25, 2011, 05:41:34 AM
Quote from: aiden.FTM on March 24, 2011, 06:31:37 PM
Hey Vicky
I would love to meet up sometime. Oh, And this is Aiden from the article! :)
I live in pasadena now, but I'm always visiting my parents so maybe we can grab coffee or something. :)
Thank you for the support.
Welcome! Thanks for sharing your story!