The Daily Cardinal – Courtney Davis
Blue Strom, who described herself as being in ?gender limbo? but identifies mostly as a gay man, spoke Tuesday as part of the LGBT Campus Center?s Out and About Month series.
Strom discussed various struggles she has faced throughout her multiple gender transitions from lesbian to transgender male and back to female.
Strom first came out as bisexual when she was 17, but married a man and had a child with him. After splitting with her husband she came out again as a lesbian and then began her transition as a male transvestite, which, for her, included breast reduction and testosterone injections.
?In many ways, my life has been a big social gender experiment from childhood to young adulthood,? Strom said. ?It?s not always been about being trans, but it?s always had to do with my complicated composite of gender and my desire to express how I feel inside.?