"It's not the easiest thing in the world to be a bi-sexual teenager. It's even harder when you're also an Indian girl. I was 15 when my world was flipped over and I fell in love with a girl. She was beautiful, funny, and radiated confidence. She was a freely out bi-sexual, while I tried to maintain the charade of being an obsessed, boy-crazy teenage girl like most of my friends."
Anita, Ontario
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"I feel a strange connection to Pinocchio. No, not that I am prone to fibs and tall tales, but as Pinocchio yearned to be a real boy, only lately did I come to the realization that I want to be a real girl. Girl? That may be stretching it a bit after all, I am 56 years old. But as a female member of the human species, I am very young."
Daphne, Nova Scotia
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"And that's when I met the thief of my heart at last year's Toronto Pride Parade. The young man grinned and waved when he saw my hand-lettered neon sign -- 'I love my trans son' -- and started jabbing his finger into his chest, indicating that he too, was someone's trans son. I waded into the crowd, sign and all, to give this stranger a hug. We embraced for a very long time, and then he whispered: 'I wish my mom had been as understanding as you.'"
Joan, Ontario
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"When I was 12, I saw my Dad greet his friend John with a hug and a kiss. I was sitting in between them and I looked at Dad on the right and John on the left and it hit me...whack! They're in love!"
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"I am a seventeen year-old male going into my final year of high school. Over the last few months I've grown incredibly close to a new friend. They happen to be trans - FTM and nearly three years younger than me. There's nothing I can't share with them and vice-versa. He's someone I talk to every single day and I can't imagine my days without him."
Chris, Nova Scotia