Early Struggles

I was very young when I first felt the urge to cross dress. By the time I was 8 years old, I was old enough to realize that there were distinct differences in the ways that boys and girls dressed, and I didn’t understand why there were such strict boundaries between what each gender was allowed to wear. I would have preferred to wear the clothes my sisters were allowed to wear—hair bows, tights, slips, bright dresses, and patent leather shoes. As a young boy, I was only allowed to…