Trans doc She's a Boy I Knew

http://www.xtra.ca/public/Ottawa/Trans_doc_Shes_a_Boy_I_Knew-5621.aspx
10/8/2008

At a time when small children are thinking about their first day of school and how to ride a bike, Gwen Haworth (who was at the time a young boy named Steven) knew that her gender identity was awry. Even at that oft-innocent age her instincts were to keep those desires secret from everyone, something she kept to herself for more than two decades. "I've been aware of this since I was four," says Haworth. "That meant 23 years of keeping this secret hidden, 23 years of self-hate and internalized transphobia."