Transgender woman hopes to create awareness (video)

    by camille m. doty/cdoty@vicad.com
    Originally published February 8, 2012 at 2:21 p.m., updated February 9, 2012 at 12:30 a.m.

http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2012/feb/08/cd_vagina_monologues_020912_166507/

Gillian Ybabez was born a man, but she now identifies herself as a woman.

As a teenager, Ybabez, now 30, questioned her gender. She thought her feelings would go away, but they never did.

"I thought something was wrong with me," she said.

Ybabez's first images of transgender people were on talk shows like Jerry Springer and Maury Povich. However, she doesn't recommend those programs for sexual identity education.