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

I came out around 25 publicly.

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.

It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.

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

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.