Twenty years ago, John Junior was looking through the mirror at their reflection as they put on their mum's makeup and jewelry.
When she caught John in the act and asked them what was happening, they simply told her that it felt normal to them. John, who is genderfluid and uses the pronouns they/them, says that memories like these can now be looked back on as crucial stepping stones in their life journey but they didn’t see it that way at the time. “I’ve been confused about my gender identity since I was eleven,” John tells the Manchester Evening News. “I wanted a sex change when I was an early teenager.
I felt like I was living in the wrong body, and I still to this day feel more female than male inside.” John, 31, has Klinefelter
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