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

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

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

I wanted to show America a different kind of man. If there was someone like me when I was growing up, my whole life would have been different.

I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.