FreeP.com – By Korie Wilkins – Free Press Staff Writer
Lance Hicks will be one of about 50 teenagers in Ferndale this weekend to talk about equality, activism and health issues as a part of one of the largest gatherings of transgender youth in the Midwest.
The 17-year-old Hicks’ birth certificate lists “female” for gender, but Hicks said he always has known he was male. When the Groves High School senior was a toddler, he would say he was a boy — not a girl.
Two years ago, he came out to his parents, friends and teachers as transgender — an umbrella term that includes people who define their gender different from the sex they were born as. Hicks has adopted a new name and uses the pronouns he, him and his.