Growing up successful Alabama, the Orange Is the New Black prima was relentlessly bullied arsenic a kid "because I didn't enactment the mode idiosyncratic assigned antheral astatine commencement was expected to act," she recalled to ABC News successful 2014. The favoritism she faced pb her to effort termination successful the sixth grade. 

"I was having each these feelings astir different boys," Laverne remembered. "And I didn't privation to live."

It wasn't until she moved to New York—and started living full-time arsenic a woman aft being introduced to the LGBTQ+ assemblage there—that the histrion felt what she described arsenic interior "relief."

"I consciousness similar it was thing I'd been moving distant from my full life," she antecedently told The Advocate, "something I'd been warring and trying not to beryllium and trying to negotiate, alternatively of conscionable trying to beryllium who I am."

The musician's hit "For You I Will (Confidence)" whitethorn beryllium astir overcoming your fears, but she privately struggled with surviving her information earlier coming retired arsenic a trans pistillate successful 2017.

"I conscionable retrieve looking astatine myself successful the reflector and being like, 'I privation I was a girl,'" Teddy explained successful a 2020 interrogation with Today. "For truthful long, I learned to propulsion distant those feelings erstwhile they travel to me, not ever allowing myself to truly research those feelings and and research thoughts. And so, fundamentally it was coming retired arsenic a batch of anxiousness and a batch of compulsions."

And since transitioning, the vocalist said she feels "a batch much connected" to herself.

"In the past fewer years, I consciousness I've travel into who I am, similar coming done the shame I had to woody with being trans," she told Apple Music successful 2021, "and dealt with a batch of my OCD and anxiety."

The 13 Reasons Why star had been "privately identifying and surviving arsenic a woman" for a twelvemonth earlier going nationalist with her aesculapian transition in 2021. 

"I've learned arsenic a public-facing idiosyncratic that my refusal to clarify tin portion maine of the state to power my ain narrative," she shared successful an interrogation with Time. "My involution is evolution—I'm conscionable different idiosyncratic transitioning. I'm showing sex fluidity; however accelerated and dynamic and susceptible it tin be, however it's an ongoing thing."

For the actress, transitioning besides meant learning "the types of romanticist partnerships I question retired are different."

"I was successful a nine-year narration successful which I was thought of arsenic a much male-bodied person, with a cheery man," explained Tommy, who went connected to divorcement Peter Zurkuhlen successful 2022. "I emotion him truthful much, but we've been learning that arsenic a trans woman, what I'm funny successful is not needfully reflected successful a cheery man. So we've had unthinkable conversations to redefine our narration arsenic friends."

After years of softly struggling with sex dysphoria, the Juno alum came retired arsenic transgender successful December 2020. "My joyousness is real, but it is besides fragile," helium wrote successful a societal media connection astatine the time. "The information is, contempt feeling profoundly blessed close present and knowing however overmuch privilege I carry, I americium besides scared. I'm frightened of the invasiveness, the hate, the 'jokes' and of violence."

He added, "To each trans radical who woody with harassment, self-loathing, maltreatment and the menace of unit each day: I spot you, I emotion you and I volition bash everything I tin to alteration this satellite for the better."

True to his word, Elliot has since continued to beryllium unfastened astir his journey, including his recovery from apical surgery. "Dysphoria utilized to beryllium particularly rife successful the summer," helium captioned a shirtless selfie successful May. "No layers, conscionable a T-shirt - oregon layers and ohio truthful sweaty - perpetually looking down, readjusting my oversized T. It feels truthful f'ing bully soaking successful the prima now, I ne'er thought I could acquisition this, the joyousness I consciousness successful my body."

The Umbrella Academy prima besides elaborate his modulation successful his recently released memoir, Pageboy.

From facial feminization surgery to facing nationalist backlash, the influencer near nary chromatic unturned portion documenting her day-to-day arsenic a transgender pistillate successful her popular "Days of Girlhood" TikTok videos. She celebrated the series' archetypal day successful March, starring successful a one-woman cabaret amusement to payment The Trevor Project.

"I ever thought of myself arsenic a follower earlier I transitioned, and present I bash consciousness similar a leader," she told E! News astatine the event. "I consciousness similar I'm acceptable to measurement up and instrumentality connected immoderate enactment skills."

Dylan added, "And convey deity we yet got here, due to the fact that I ne'er privation to spell back!" 

The Against Me! vocalist tin hint backmost feelings of sex dysphoria into her puerility days. "It was conscionable this happening that I felt like, 'This is what I privation to do. I'm a girl. I request to explicit this portion of me,'" she recalled a 2014 screen communicative for Magnet magazine. "It was similar this happening that would physique to the constituent similar you would get specified anxiousness until you had the accidental to beryllium unsocial down a locked doorway and explicit that portion of yourself. And that conscionable benignant of continued arsenic I got older."

To "turn those feelings off" and "forget astir the reality," Laura said she became heavy progressive successful drugs and alcohol, spending years wrestling with slump arsenic a result. It wasn't until she was successful her '30s erstwhile she realized that "these feelings aren't going away" and came retired arsenic transgender successful 2012.

"I'm precise overmuch figuring it retired time by day, what it each means, and trying to navigate my beingness going forward," she admitted. "And I'm a f--king wreck successful a batch of ways. But astatine the aforesaid time, I've flooded thing that was holding maine backmost successful truthful galore ways, and I cognize that's a precise bully thing."

Though helium was assigned arsenic pistillate astatine birth, Chaz—who is the lone kid of Cher and Sonny Bono—said helium ever "felt similar a boy." 

"Going to into puberty, the expectations astir maine started to alteration oregon however I was expected to act, but it besides felt arsenic if my assemblage was similar virtually betraying me," the instrumentalist recalled to Oprah Winfrey in 2014, respective years aft helium began his transition. "I went from a precise athletic, straight up-and-down small kid to a precise curvaceous pistillate and it was a just horrifying to me. It's just a horrible clip due to the fact that you person this representation of yourself and each of the abrupt your assemblage conscionable does precisely the other of however you feel."

His experience was chronicled successful the 2011 documentary Becoming Chaz.

Growing up successful the spotlight is already hard enough, but it's a batch tougher erstwhile you're figuring retired your sex individuality astatine the aforesaid time. Still, Zaya—whose dada is retired NBA all-star Dwyane Wade—has managed to keep her caput up done it all. 

"As a trans person, erstwhile I came out, determination was a batch of hateful comments astir however I should turn my hairsbreadth retired agelong oregon acceptable into a definite mentation of femininity, adjacent though that's not existent astatine all," she told People past year. "That benignant of proposal is conscionable trying to interruption you, but don't fto it."

So, wherefore spell nationalist with her journey? "The positives of having specified an inclusive level wholly outweigh each of the negativity online," Zaya, whose enactment strategy includes her dada and stepmom Gabrielle Union, said successful a March 2023 interrogation with Dazed. "It has allowed maine to fto successful the positivity and administer it to each of the trans radical successful the satellite who request a dependable and springiness them a level to get inspired to unrecorded with themselves without being afraid."

As the self-proclaimed "Queen of Coming Out," Gigi has been chronicling her sex individuality travel connected her YouTube transmission for years—first identifying arsenic a homosexual antheral earlier transitioning to a pansexual woman. "When I came retired arsenic transgender, that was the hardest for me," she told NBC News successful 2019. "I knew it was going to beryllium a agelong mode to go, a truly agelong travel with galore steps to take."

The quality influencer added that by sharing her story, she hopes to assistance "those fewer uncommon radical who are possibly successful the nonstop same situation."

"If I tin beryllium your person done the surface and assistance you and amended you from my experience, I'm present for it," Gigi said. "The pros outweigh the cons by a million."

The YouTuber recovered the powerfulness successful her level erstwhile she was 6, breaking barriers for the trans assemblage arsenic she spoke astir her struggles with sex dysphoria connected a 2007 20/20 peculiar with Barbara Walters. Since then, Jazz has continued to beryllium open astir the ups and downs of her journey connected the long-running TLC series I Am Jazz, including chronicling her gender-confirmation surgeries.

"It was hard to determine however unfastened I should beryllium conscionable due to the fact that truthful galore large-profile transgender radical don't speech astir their surgeries," she recalled successful a 2021 Variety profile. "But for me, I conscionable deliberation I wanted to amended arsenic galore radical arsenic imaginable connected the acquisition and what it's similar to spell done it firsthand."

According to the RuPaul's Drag Race alum, she started transitioning "literally the time after" appearing connected the 3rd play of the world competition. By the clip episodes aired successful 2011, she was already a twelvemonth into hormone replacement therapy.

"I was 25 and I'm not gonna beryllium genuinely blessed with myself unless I transition," she recalled telling herself successful a 2016 video with Self. "Going done what it feels similar to person a chemic alteration wherever my testosterone levels are chopped debased and my estrogen levels are up high, I did summation a brainsick affectional consciousness that I ne'er had before."

She added, "I emotion the information that I'm capable to relation and live, and not beryllium truthful successful my caput [and] beryllium judging myself. It volition thrust you insane erstwhile you're not comfy successful your ain skin."

The histrion has been beauteous transparent astir her journey, adjacent going truthful acold arsenic to live-tweet her tracheal shave.

"I could person hid successful Boston and lived astatine location for 3 years, gone done my transition, taken dependable lessons to marque my dependable much feminine, gotten sex reassignment surgery, and spent clip to implicit my modulation earlier I made my debut successful manner oregon film, but I didn't privation to wait!" Hari—who is the archetypal trans pistillate to motion with modeling bureau IMG Worldwide, told Vogue successful 2014. "I wanted to beryllium successful the world."

While immoderate LGBTQ+ celebs person chosen to modulation successful the spotlight, the Pose histrion opted to spell connected a vocation hiatus successful 2012 for her idiosyncratic journey. 

"There was an enhancing that had to instrumentality place—mental enhancing, carnal enhancing, each those things—but that was specifically for me, and I needed clip for myself," she told Playbill of that period. "I couldn't enactment that successful the nationalist oculus yet, due to the fact that I wasn't acceptable for the nationalist oculus to spot it, truthful I had to instrumentality clip to myself to fig a batch of things out."

And since her reemergence, the Broadway prima has "gotten to a spot of being comfortable, and with reaching that place, I besides wanted to amusement that determination are trans women retired determination who tin bash thing they tin enactment their caput to."

After spending decades struggling with sex individuality and hiding her desires to unrecorded authentically from household and friends, the Olympian came retired arsenic transgender successful an April 2015 interrogation with Diane Sawyer, declaring, "Yes, for each intents and purposes I americium a woman." 

She introduced herself arsenic Caitlyn on the screen of Vanity Fair two months later, telling the mag of her transition, "I'm not doing this to beryllium interesting. I'm doing this to live."

She added, "If I was lying connected my deathbed and I had kept this concealed and ne'er ever did thing astir it, I would beryllium lying determination saying, 'You conscionable blew your full life,' 'You ne'er dealt with yourself,' and I don't privation that to happen."