USA. Casper, WY. 2016. Cass Wolfe, artist and college student, spoke about her transition. “When I was young, like 8, I started wearing women’s clothes, hiding in the closet literally. I got caught once, and they just scolded me. They just thought I was goofing around. I used to be the protective brother. I would protect my sister. But after we got through the teenage bullshit we ended up being really close. Theres this Disney Channel show called ‘Sister Sister’, and we made up this handshake even before I came out. It was our sister handshake. That was before, when I was a dude.
Acceptance is a big part of my story, but there are times I get called out. There’s this one dude who is like, ‘Just don’t chop off your penis. It’ll never be the same.’ But it doesn’t bother me. Lots of people in our generation are finding gender more fluid, but anyone that says this is trendy or whatever, I’ll just say, ‘What sane person would put themselves through this much pain if it wasn’t real?’
One year after I started my HRT, I stopped hiding my transition and started wearing women’s clothes. On my 24th birthday, I was like, I don’t want to keep getting older, but I do want to keep going with my transition. It was a liberating moment.”