People.com Editor Reveals Herself as Transgendered
People.com associate editor Janet Mock was born in the body of a man. But that never felt quite right. By her freshman year in high school in her native Hawaii, she was cross-dressing at school–and being harassed as a “fag” by her classmates. At the age of 18 she flew to Thailand to have gender reassignment surgery: “No more dress-up, no more pretending.”
She tells her story in Marie Claire:
Counting backward as the anesthesia took hold, I surrendered to what I believed with certainty would be a better future.
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