I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

Being self-supporting is important to me.

I feel really good, I feel like a man now, and I'm really happy.