Gainesville.com – By Megan Rolland – Sun staff writer
One secretly donned his mother’s clothes. Another spent 20 years in the military battling a feeling that something “wasn’t right.” A third always hoped friends in college would suggest a drag-queen Halloween costume.
Michelle, Amanda and Caroline were born male.
All three have crossed the threshold toward living as women – the gender they believe they are at heart.
All three are part of a little understood minority – the transgendered – whose gender identity is dramatically at odds with the sex they were born as.