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Joining us today is Eliana Bookfinder, a young woman who is a member of the Women's

Liberation Front and who had her own gender identity struggle as a young adult.

Aliana, thanks for joining us today.

Thanks for having me.

Okay, so when did you first start to think that you were a man and what made you think that?

Probably I started thinking that around when I was 12 or 13.

I'd had a lot of issues.

I had very masculine interests. I wasn't super comfortable with my body. I was very, very

uncomfortable with feminine clothing and makeup, things like that. And I sort of started to think okay maybe I'm not actually a girl maybe I'm actually a boy

And did you talk to anyone about feeling that, like tell your friends or your parents or anything?

I didn't. I kept it mostly to myself. I think entirely to myself until a few years later.

I did read a lot about it online, although I never actually

mustered up the nerve to post and receive feedback. So when did you begin to actually identify as a man and how did that process come about?

What happened was I was reading a lot. I was on Tumblr and Facebook and also a blogging sort of community that I followed.

And I was seeing a lot of stuff about how, you know, being trans, you know, it's about not fitting in with the gender roles you're assigned, you know, not being

very feminine woman or very masculine man, and like, it's all about how, you know, you feel about your gender identity and I remember thinking

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