Hello! I want to thank you for writing about the Transgender student. A lot of people get confused and don’t understand the meaning of what a transgender student is. I have a cousin who was born and raised as a boy. Jorel felt he was suppose to be a girl because he had always felt really feminine at an early age. He told me that he just had a liking toward make-up, boy’s, girls clothing etc. Coming from a Christian back ground it was really hard for me to cope with the fact that my cousin was gay. I told him even though I don’t agree with who he is I still have respect for him, and that I love him no matter what decision he makes. His life growing up was very difficult he said, and people would make fun of him. High school was one of the hardest places to step foot on. He was just an innocent person trying to figure out who he was. As time went on and Jorel now known as Liana came to terms of who he was he later went on to pay for operations to change his physical appearance, and take hormonal pills to look physically more like a woman. Now I can gladly say my cousin Liana is very happy with who she is now because she feels like she’s herself. On her long journey she had to come by many obstacles like losing her relationship with her own father because he was against what she done to herself. My cousin use to tell me at times she felt like killing herself because no one excepted who she was. Liana is an aspiring young model and gets many runway, and print modeling jobs in the bay area. I believe before this article was posted a lot of people did not understand what transgender was about. Liana said never call us “Trani’s” because we don’t like that term when referring to himself. One time when I was walking into Target in the beginning stages of her transformation she had to really use the bathroom, but didn’t want to use either sex bathrooms because she wasn’t fully comfortable yet, but lucky there was another option that said unisex. Liana felt much more comfortable with the bathroom that had no specific gender.
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Hello! I want to thank you for writing about the Transgender student. A lot of people get confused and don’t understand the meaning of what a transgender student is. I have a cousin who was born and raised as a boy. Jorel felt he was suppose to be a girl because he had always felt really feminine at an early age. He told me that he just had a liking toward make-up, boy’s, girls clothing etc. Coming from a Christian back ground it was really hard for me to cope with the fact that my cousin was gay. I told him even though I don’t agree with who he is I still have respect for him, and that I love him no matter what decision he makes. His life growing up was very difficult he said, and people would make fun of him. High school was one of the hardest places to step foot on. He was just an innocent person trying to figure out who he was. As time went on and Jorel now known as Liana came to terms of who he was he later went on to pay for operations to change his physical appearance, and take hormonal pills to look physically more like a woman. Now I can gladly say my cousin Liana is very happy with who she is now because she feels like she’s herself. On her long journey she had to come by many obstacles like losing her relationship with her own father because he was against what she done to herself. My cousin use to tell me at times she felt like killing herself because no one excepted who she was. Liana is an aspiring young model and gets many runway, and print modeling jobs in the bay area. I believe before this article was posted a lot of people did not understand what transgender was about. Liana said never call us “Trani’s” because we don’t like that term when referring to himself. One time when I was walking into Target in the beginning stages of her transformation she had to really use the bathroom, but didn’t want to use either sex bathrooms because she wasn’t fully comfortable yet, but lucky there was another option that said unisex. Liana felt much more comfortable with the bathroom that had no specific gender.