It's complicated Transgender Houstonians say life is better after the switch

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It's complicated
Transgender Houstonians say life is better after the switch
By CLAUDIA FELDMAN Copyright 2010 Houston Chronicle
Sept. 23, 2010, 6:00PM

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/main/7215138.html

He was just a toddler when he started dressing in girls' clothes.

He was 11 when he told his mom he must be gay. What other word fit his dilemma? He was a boy who thought like a girl, acted like a girl and wanted desperately to be a girl.

"It's not a sex thing," he said, struggling to explain.

Today, after sex-reassignment surgery, Chris Williams is Cristan Williams and a strong, political voice in Houston's transgender community.