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" Everyone's journey to coming out as transgender is different. For me, I've know that I'm transgender my entire life. "

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" I remember, as a child, lying in my bed at night praying that I would wake up the next day and be a girl, to be my authentic self, and to just have my family be proud of me. I remember looking into the mirror struggling to say just two words, 'I'm transgender.' "

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