Speaker gives personal face to transgendered lives
By Michael Wunder
News Editor
Published: Thursday, October 27, 2011
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"I am just one voice out of many," said Ryan Sallans during a speech Tuesday afternoon to a packed crowd at the Milo Bail Student Center Ballroom. "Everybody has a different experience. I share my story because I'm a person just like anyone else."
Sallans came to UNO hoping to put a "personal face" to transgender identities—injecting a deeply personal, and at times painful, story with contagious humor.
Sallans was born Kimberly Ann in 1979 in Aurora, Neb., a small town with a population barely surpassing 4,000. Being unprepared for a girl, his parents named Sallans after his brother's girlfriend.