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"What am I? I ask myself this all the time. Right now what I believe myself to be is an FTM, or a female-to-male transsexual. A boy in a girl's body. What I want is for you to understand, and let me transition into the boy I really am."

The startling admission left Betsy shocked and bewildered.

"It was an out of body experience," she said. (The family's last name is not being used to protect their privacy.)

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If privacy was actually a concern, there wouldn't be a photo.

aww, that article just breaks my heart.  Wish I had been born ten years later than I was.

I sometimes think that but then things are a bit off these days and I am afraid that my warped sense of humour, with me since birth, would probably have landed me in jail by the fourth grade. As much as I did suffer from GID, I did enjoy some activities that most schools have no banned such as recess, tag, and dodge ball (I was good at holding onto the ball even though I was a skinny one).

I go with Billy Joel with this area, "the good ole days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems..."

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