article_snippet: Save your fear people.
article_snippet: This is not something to be afraid of; This's an opportunity for us to evolve.
article_snippet: did I become afraid of who I was.
article_snippet: that considered homosexuality "abnormal" or that people needed to put labels on our feelings toward others that I became terrified that I was "different.
article_snippet: I was afraid of being thought of differently.
article_snippet: The most crippling fear came from people not understanding that I was a boy trapped in a girl's body and simply labeling me something I'm not.
article_snippet: That's what I was truly afraid of.