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Tracey was born a boy, but has identified as a girl. For Tracey Wilson, who is ten now, her struggle is making sure people see her the way she does. She is transgender; born a boy, but has identified as a girl for as long as she can remember.
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Read More »ABOVE: An excerpt from Tracey Wilson’s interview with 16X9. Tracey was born a boy, but has identified as a girl. For Tracey Wilson, who is ten now, her struggle is making sure people see her the way she does. She is transgender; born a boy, but has identified as a girl for as long as she can remember. “He would take my scarves and wrap them around his head to make flowing hair, or he would put on shirts as dresses,” remembers her mom, Michelle Wilson. Tracey was born “Trey” and is the oldest of their three children. Tracey is enrolled in tap, ballet and musical theatre dance classes. Her bedroom is decorated with dolls, her favourite pair of high heels and a bass guitar. Her hair passes her shoulders and she is often nervously playing with a barrette. But most startling, her big brown eyes reveal a maturity and sensitivity beyond her years that is also little intimidating.
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Read More »Instead of letting Tracey use the girl’s bathroom the school allowed Tracey to use the handicapped bathroom. But the school wouldn’t approve a name or uniform change, saying they did not have a policy for allowing it. “This is an emerging issue it’s certainly an issue that’s come to the forefront over a number of years and it’s a very complex issue,” Doug Lauson, superintendent of the Independent Catholic School Board of Vancouver, explains. “The position of the Catholic church is that… you live your life in the sex that God gave you.” Outside of the theological argument, sex is determined at birth, but gender is not defined until around age three, according to most doctors. Sometimes sex and gender match, sometimes they don’t, often they lie somewhere on a spectrum. Girls don’t have to like pink and not all boys like trucks.
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