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Kayla was born on April twenty five, nine nine

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to Kayla. Never played with girls. Toys never

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played with dolls. About two years of age on

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, Caleb was more into dirt and bikes. She

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was probably six seven years old. We should goto

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towards the guys post. She would pick out baggy

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pants, box or underwear. She didn't like girl

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underpants. When people said I was a girl,

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I was like, That's not right. I know

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I'm a guy confused about who or what she wass

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Kayla began failing at school and fighting bitterly with her

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mother, Angelina. I went to some counselors and

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they just told me It's like a phase I'm going

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through, But I still know that it wasn't true

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because I just felt so sure. I'm being a

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void after awhile. Just clammed up inside on.

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I just got so much in career by doing that

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. Doing one explosive argument, Kayla banged her head

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against the wall and bit and kicked her mother,

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Angelina, called a crisis hotline. They took her

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over to a children's hospital. Okay, it was

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the hospital for a couple of weeks after I got

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out of the hospital, I happened to see the

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Oprah Show, and a boy was expressing his feelings

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about being the opposite sex. And I know this

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is who I was. It was like a miracle

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when I talk about what I was. Kayla immediately

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told her mom she believes she was a boy born

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in a girl's body. My first reaction, it

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was basically and blowing it off for a few days

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later said, Okay, let's find out more about

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it. So I know a lot of mothers are

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watching us, and as a mother, can you

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imagine what that discussion would be like? Angelina knew

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that she needed help, and she found therapist Jenny

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Grant. For seventeen years, Jenny has treated people

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who believe that they were born in the wrong bodies

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. They're called There's a name for transgenders, and

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Kayla was the youngest patient that she's ever had most

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transgendered and angels know very early in life. They're

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in the wrong body. They've been assigned the wrong

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sex. That's a licensed therapist. I'm trying to

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decipher. If this individual is generally transgendered or if

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they have other issues, what are things that are

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going on in this family that might cause this otherwise

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normal person to behave like this because I can't see

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any other problems or any other issues by believe that

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kills the boy. For Angelina, adjusting to the

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idea of having a son wasn't easy. It's been

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a struggle almost every day. We cut his hair

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, and from that day forward, he said.

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I want to be call Caden. I don't want

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to be called Kale anymore. You get kind of

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a butter fly feeling sometimes when I say him at

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school, Kaden was having struggles of his own.

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People called me on***. I got cornered in

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by some bullies and the old and beat up.

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It just makes you feel terrible because I don't understand

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why they're doing that on my base. Worries are

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, is he gonna go through situations when he doesn't

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survive, which is a great fear? Anybody hurt

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hurt him physically. Puberty presented more challenges. Kayla

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was nine when she got her period. The Depression

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got really bad when the periods became more regular.

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Kills Breast started developing pretty early on to to mask

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signs. A female shape. Keeton started binding his

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breasts most every morning. It's it's a full routine

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before going out. Doesn't want anybody even slightly think

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that their baby breast there must have circuit. I'm

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like no and to curb kittens. Menstrual cycle.

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Angelina put her eleven year old child on dep rope

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. Rivera, that's a form of birth control.

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Happy with a psychologist is a pediatrician and also the

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psychiatrist. They all decided together that this was the

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best fit for him. I don't want to see

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my child depressed. Someone Sam commit suicide. I'm

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not doing anything that's going to be different physically to

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him. Eventually, I could make it worse by

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telling him No. When I'm old and left Tio

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, I want to get testosterone in my surgery for

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the treatments will have to wait until Cayton is eighteen

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. Angelina decided. I think the hardest thing about

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all this besides the fact that I have a son

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now is the ridicule. Despite the difficult road ahead

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, Keeton dreams of the future. When I grow

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up, I imagine myself with a big house,

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a wife and kids being happy with life. I

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wish I was just born a boy because it would've

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been so much easier