prologue

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prologue

     My name is Dan. I'm not Danielle. I've known this since I was little, but I didn't know the word for it until I was thirteen.  I'm transgender. Nobody knows it yet, but it's true. I'm not a girl.

     It's hard, it really is; having to keep to yourself that you really want to be the opposite gender. That, no, this isn't a phase. I've brought it up to my mum once or twice and she brushed it off as 'teen hormones' and told me it would pass eventually. She still calls me a girl. She still calls me Dani, Ellie, and Ella. The truth is, she really doesn't know how upset that makes me. She doesn't know that every time I get called a girl, it makes me even more upset than I was before. She always says, "Dani, I'll do anything to make you happy," but she doesn't realise that she's one of the many things upsetting me.

     I'm Dan. I'm a 16 year old boy. I am not Danielle. I am not a girl.

     I'm Dan, and this is my story.


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