So pretty soon you're going to turn 11. Oh yeah.

Can you give me a little update on your life? Where you're at? Um, friends.

One at my new school knows, I'm trans.

Pretty well in touch with a lot of friends from last year and the year before who know I'm

trans.

How would you describe the role that being transgender plays in your life right now? What's the significance to you?

It's fairly significant, but being transgender is only one trait of my many traits, And I don't like just everybody knowing. I wouldn't say I'm not

I'm ashamed of it or that I want to hide it, but I don't want everyone to know.

So I've started wearing more skirts, but I recently found a really nice dress and my mom ordered more of that kind of dress in different colors and I really like that but I really like to have some privacy so I like to wear something like wearing a skirt or a dress over your leggings.

As I've gotten older, everyone's focus a little bit more on how everyone else and they

look.

In like kindergarten and first grade I noticed like we didn't really

care we didn't really look at that we just played we just hang out we were

ridiculous I hung out. We were ridiculous kindergarten and first graders. So I first started wearing like skirts in third grade or fourth.

That was when I really got into having the privacy

because that was when we'd all start sort of really focusing on how we wanted to look at

school and this year it's gotten even more intense everyone is just kind of like

more judgey because we're older I guess and more at that sort of age.

Like kids are always getting manies and petties and like sort of caring more about how they look. So I decided that I kind of wanted to, you know, start being a little more careful about how much

privacy I had.

You feel like kids are noticing each other's bodies and clothing a lot more?

Definitely. No one actually noticed.

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