'As I learned more information about hormone replacement therapy, I knew that this was what I had to do,' she recalled. The show documents a 14-year-old's medical transition to becoming a woman. She was watching the TLC docu-series I Am Jazz with her mother.
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Since I could speak in full sentences, I was like, ''Give me a dress!'' I always knew on some level that I was female,' she wrote.īut it wasn't until Totah was 14 that she decided to make the transition. 'I would always tell my mother that I wished I were a girl. 'I was even introduced that way before receiving an award from an LGBTQ+ rights organization,' she added.īut Totah said she knew she was a woman since five years old, long before she even understood what the word gender meant. Totah subsequently let others assume she was gay and would be asked in interviews 'how it feels to be a young gay man.' The teen has been on hormone blockers since 14 and says she's now 'ready to be free' I identify as female, specifically as a transgender female. Totah continued: 'My pronouns are she, her and hers. I know now, more than ever, that I'm finally ready to take this step toward becoming myself.
'In the past, I've halfway corrected people by telling them I identify as LGBTQ,' the teen wrote. 'But I realized over the past few years that hiding my true self is not healthy. In an essay for Time last month, the former Disney Channel and Champions star, explained how growing up in Northern California people assumed she was a gay boy and would continually cast her as such when she started her acting career. 'Wow, you’re really THAT beautiful' wrote Oretga. The comments section saw Josie's fellow Disney channel stars Kayla Maisonet, 19, and Jenna Ortega, 15, show their support. New me: Disney star Josie Totah, 17, who played Mindy Kaling's son shares first photo since coming out as transgender she captioned the snap 'what’d i miss?'
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