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Title: Starting the world's only transgender bodybuilding competition
Post by: stephaniec on December 10, 2015, 08:11:59 PM
Starting the world's only transgender bodybuilding competition

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/10/living/transgender-bodybuilding-competition/index.html

CNN/Story by Kelly Murray; Video by Madeleine Stix and Matt Gannon, CNNUpdated 2:55 PM ET, Thu December 10, 2015


"CNN)—Four years ago, Neo Sandja decided to get drunk and throw himself in front of a speeding car.

"I went out to a bar with my friends," he says."When I left, I told them, 'Goodbye, you'll never see me again.' But they were just as drunk as I was and didn't take me seriously."

He found himself stumbling along the side of the road in his Georgia college town in the middle of the night. Headlights were speeding by.

"I kept thinking, 'This is it. I'm going to do this. I just can't be here anymore. Why did I suffer so long?" "