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Into The Outside

Building a Contemporary Queer Youth Archive in Brighton & Hove

Trans experience

  • “My friends, luckily, are really accepting”

  • “Generally I identify as a girl, although some days I’m a little bit kind of not, so just like 97% girl or something”

  • “In the future it will become a lot easier to be yourself”

  • “My school had a Stonewall award and I ended up running the LGBTQ+ group, so it was really great and really good fun. All of my teachers were completely supportive of me”

  • “I do have a lot of transgender and gay friends. Sometimes I do talk to them about stuff like this, because I want to learn more. I want to make sure I understand it”

  • “I realised the things that made me identify as one or the other, were inherently really sexist“

  • “Although I identify as male, I still quite like wearing feminine clothes”

  • “I took a long time to figure out exactly what my gender was and I’d been questioning it for a very long time”

  • “You could scream anything from the top of your lungs about your sexuality, or acceptance and everyone would probably just yell ‘Cool!’ back”

  • “It kind of changes how people think about you and how they act around you”

  • “Sometimes I feel like I want to wear more feminine clothing, but mostly I wear masculine clothes to present how I’d like my pronouns to be”

  • “I have to consider passing as male, so I don’t get horrifically mis-gendered everyday”

  • “There were so many other people that I could relate to there.”

  • “I want it to change that people don’t label people as soon as they see them”

  • “My friends are completely accepting”

  • “I thought I might try out male pronouns and that felt right”

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