Living life 'transgender'

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Living life 'transgender'
Sarah Delage, Multimedia Journalist   

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=117235

ORONO, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Though Claire Folsom lives life as a woman, she was born male.

She says had a pretty average childhood growing up in Holden. But when her male body started to develop, she realized it was a body she didn't feel right in.

"I'd say middle school probably," Folsom said. "When you start to realize there's a difference, an actual difference not just a social one, between girls and boys. But even then I didn't know what it was, I just didn't feel right. It was kind of like a persistent feeling of just wrongness, and I didn't have any words for it, I didn't know what was going on."