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Still in the CloSet
For me, realising that I am transsexual was really a strange feeling. Since
early childhood, I always liked to befriend girls and usually spent more
time playing with them. At the age of 12, when I was in middle school,
I still didn’t have any guy friends and was very friendly with girls, which
sometimes their parents took in wrong ways.
When I saw guys checking out girls, I longed for the girls’ beauty and
grace. I felt confused. And then I searched online and found that I was
born a man and feel like a woman. After hearing the story of Gazal on
your episode, I realised that I might be a transsexual lesbian as I don’t feel
like any boy around me, even at the age of 25.
Gazal’s story inspired me but I’m still afraid to come out to my friends and
family. I tried telling some of my friends but they didn’t take it seriously.
In the past, I had felt suicidal but I controlled myself.
Piyush
It’s not OK for anyone to demand that people change their sexual
orientation. I’m gay and I was born that way. Of course I feel bad about
being in the closet. If people get to see LGBT people in their college and
workplace, things will get better drastically.
Ravi
12
For me, realising that I am transsexual was really a strange feeling. Since
early childhood, I always liked to befriend girls and usually spent more
time playing with them. At the age of 12, when I was in middle school,
I still didn’t have any guy friends and was very friendly with girls, which
sometimes their parents took in wrong ways.
When I saw guys checking out girls, I longed for the girls’ beauty and
grace. I felt confused. And then I searched online and found that I was
born a man and feel like a woman. After hearing the story of Gazal on
your episode, I realised that I might be a transsexual lesbian as I don’t feel
like any boy around me, even at the age of 25.
Gazal’s story inspired me but I’m still afraid to come out to my friends and
family. I tried telling some of my friends but they didn’t take it seriously.
In the past, I had felt suicidal but I controlled myself.
Piyush
It’s not OK for anyone to demand that people change their sexual
orientation. I’m gay and I was born that way. Of course I feel bad about
being in the closet. If people get to see LGBT people in their college and
workplace, things will get better drastically.
Ravi
12
