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- JOSIE TOTAH’S GENR: SHE WAS MISINTIFIED AS A GAY MAN
- JOSIE TOTAH GAY, BIRTH NAME, FAY, NOW
- SAVE OR SPEND: WARDROBE PICKS FOR YOUR BUDGETOPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHCULTUREFORMER DISNEY ACTOR ANNOUNC SHE'S TRANSGENRMDY KALG AND J.J. TOTAH, NOW KNOWN AS JOSIE TOTAH, APPEAR A SCENE ON "CHAMPNS."EVANS VTAL WARD/NBCBYLLEY MSERAUGT 21, 2018, 4:08 PM•3 M READFORMER "CHAMPNS" STAR J.J. TOTAH REVEALED A NEW PERSONAL SAY THAT SHE'S TRANSGENR AND GO BY THE NAME JOSIE.TOTAH, WHO HAD ROL DISNEY'S "JSIE" AND "SOFIA THE FIRST," AS WELL AS SHOWS CLUDG "NEW GIRL" AND "GLEE," WROTE THAT SHE ALWAYS LET PEOPLE ASSUME THAT SHE WAS A GAY MALE, AND ONLY CLARIFIED PREVLY THAT SHE INTIFIED AS LGBTQ.HOWEVER, SHE ADD THAT MORE RECENTLY, SHE'S REALIZED THAT "HIDG MY TE SELF IS NOT HEALTHY.""I KNOW NOW, MORE THAN EVER, THAT I’M FALLY READY TO TAKE THIS STEP TOWARD BEG MYSELF. I’M READY TO BE EE. SO, LISTEN UP Y’ALL: YOU N JUMP ON OR JUMP OFF. EHER WAY THIS IS WHERE I’M HEADG," SHE EXPLAED HER SAY FOR TIME. "MY PRONOUNS ARE SHE, HER AND HERS. I INTIFY AS FEMALE, SPECIFILLY AS A TRANSGENR FEMALE. AND MY NAME IS JOSIE TOTAH."TOTAH, 17, EXPLAED THAT SHE'S ALWAYS KNOWN THAT SHE'S FEMALE, BUT "CRYSTALLIZED" ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO WHEN SHE WAS WATCHG "I AM JAZZ," THE REALY TV SHOW ABOUT TRANSGENR TEEN JAZZ JENNGS. LEARNG MORE ABOUT JENNGS' JOURNEY, WHICH CLUD GENR NFIRMATN SURGERY THIS PAST JUNE, SPIRED TOTAH TO BEG HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY.REALY TV STAR JAZZ JENNGS 'DOG GREAT' AFTER GENR-NFIRMATN SURGERY"LIKE MANY TRANS PEOPLE, I VELOPED SER ANXIETY AS I HID WHO I WAS. IN SOME WAYS, I FELT LIKE I WAS LYG BY LETTG PEOPLE BELIEVE I WAS THAT GAY BOY. I ALSO ULDN’T BE MYSELF. I HID THE GIRLS’ CLOTH I REALLY WANTED TO WEAR UNR SWEATPANTS AND SWEATSHIRTS. AND I HAD AN ENORMO FEAR OF MALE PUBERTY," SHE WROTE. "ONCE I GOT ON THE HORMONE BLOCKER, WHICH BASILLY STOPPED MY TTOSTERONE, THAT PART CHANGED. I WASN’T WAKG UP EVERY DAY AND PANICKG. 'IS THERE HAIR ON MY FACE? IS MY VOICE GETTG EPER?' THOSE CHANG ARE VERY HARD, IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE, TO REVERSE. AND I KNEW THAT I WAS GIVG MYSELF WHAT I NEED, THAT I DIDN’T HAVE TO BE AAID OF THAT ANYMORE."THE ACTRS WROTE THAT WHILE SHE'S STILL NERVO THAT BEG TRANSGENR WILL E HER TO FACE DISCRIMATN, SHE ADD THAT BEG LLED JOSIE MAK HER FEEL MORE "SEEN." AS SHE GO OFF TO LLEGE AND NTU TO PURSUE ACTG, SHE'S EXCED TO TAKE ON NEW ROL THAT SHE NEVER BEFORE THOUGHT POSSIBLE."IT’S SOMETHG EVERYONE WANTS, TO FEEL UNRSTOOD. AND, AS A SEMI-RELIG PERSON WHO WENT TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL, I HAVE E TO BELIEVE THAT GOD MA ME TRANSGENR. I DON’T FEEL LIKE I WAS PUT THE WRONG BODY. I DON’T FEEL LIKE THERE WAS A MISTAKE MA. I BELIEVE THAT I AM TRANSGENR TO HELP PEOPLE UNRSTAND DIFFERENC," SHE WROTE. "IT ALLOWS ME TO GA PERSPECTIVE, TO BE MORE ACCEPTG OF OTHERS, BEE I KNOW WHAT FEELS LIKE TO KNOW YOU’RE NOT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE."JENNGS TWEETED SHE WAS PROUD TO SEE TOTAH "LIVG YOUR TTH!!"UP NEXT CULTURE—DREW CAREY, ADAM SANDLER AND MORE CELEBRI PAY TRIBUTE TO BOB BARKERAUGT 26, 2023ALS ASSOCIATN GETS DONATN BOOST FOLLOWG ATH OF SANDRA BULLOCK'S PARTNER BRYAN RANDALL AUGT 26, 2023THOMAS RHETT AKS SHAR SUMMER ALBUM WH SWEET FAY PHOTOSAUGT 25, 2023SEE ARIANA GRAN PERFORM 'HONEYMOON AVENUE' TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF 'YOURS TLY,' HER BUT ALBUMAUGT 25, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—DREW CAREY, ADAM SANDLER AND MORE CELEBRI PAY TRIBUTE TO BOB BARKERAUGT 26, 2023ALS ASSOCIATN GETS DONATN BOOST FOLLOWG ATH OF SANDRA BULLOCK'S PARTNER BRYAN RANDALL AUGT 26, 2023THOMAS RHETT AKS SHAR SUMMER ALBUM WH SWEET FAY PHOTOSAUGT 25, 2023SEE ARIANA GRAN PERFORM 'HONEYMOON AVENUE' TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF 'YOURS TLY,' HER BUT ALBUMAUGT 25, 2023
JOSIE TOTAH’S GENR: SHE WAS MISINTIFIED AS A GAY MAN
Totah, gay boy. ” When I was really young, growg up a small town Northern California, people would jt assume I was gay. Numero reporters have asked me terviews how feels to be a young gay man.
JOSIE TOTAH GAY, BIRTH NAME, FAY, NOW
I almost felt like I owed to everybody to be that gay boy. In some ways, I felt like I was lyg by lettg people believe I was that gay boy.
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However, she didn’t e out as a transgenr female, meang people – pecially journalists – kept misintifyg her as gay. The misreprentatn hurt Totah, but some ways, she enuraged : Totah failed to rrect people and played young, gay characters, rercg the notn that Josie was a gay man. Josie knew trans people whose journey volved first g out as gay, but that wasn’t her journey.
SAVE OR SPEND: WARDROBE PICKS FOR YOUR BUDGETOPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHCULTUREFORMER DISNEY ACTOR ANNOUNC SHE'S TRANSGENRMDY KALG AND J.J. TOTAH, NOW KNOWN AS JOSIE TOTAH, APPEAR A SCENE ON "CHAMPNS."EVANS VTAL WARD/NBCBYLLEY MSERAUGT 21, 2018, 4:08 PM•3 M READFORMER "CHAMPNS" STAR J.J. TOTAH REVEALED A NEW PERSONAL SAY THAT SHE'S TRANSGENR AND GO BY THE NAME JOSIE.TOTAH, WHO HAD ROL DISNEY'S "JSIE" AND "SOFIA THE FIRST," AS WELL AS SHOWS CLUDG "NEW GIRL" AND "GLEE," WROTE THAT SHE ALWAYS LET PEOPLE ASSUME THAT SHE WAS A GAY MALE, AND ONLY CLARIFIED PREVLY THAT SHE INTIFIED AS LGBTQ.HOWEVER, SHE ADD THAT MORE RECENTLY, SHE'S REALIZED THAT "HIDG MY TE SELF IS NOT HEALTHY.""I KNOW NOW, MORE THAN EVER, THAT I’M FALLY READY TO TAKE THIS STEP TOWARD BEG MYSELF. I’M READY TO BE EE. SO, LISTEN UP Y’ALL: YOU N JUMP ON OR JUMP OFF. EHER WAY THIS IS WHERE I’M HEADG," SHE EXPLAED HER SAY FOR TIME. "MY PRONOUNS ARE SHE, HER AND HERS. I INTIFY AS FEMALE, SPECIFILLY AS A TRANSGENR FEMALE. AND MY NAME IS JOSIE TOTAH."TOTAH, 17, EXPLAED THAT SHE'S ALWAYS KNOWN THAT SHE'S FEMALE, BUT "CRYSTALLIZED" ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO WHEN SHE WAS WATCHG "I AM JAZZ," THE REALY TV SHOW ABOUT TRANSGENR TEEN JAZZ JENNGS. LEARNG MORE ABOUT JENNGS' JOURNEY, WHICH CLUD GENR NFIRMATN SURGERY THIS PAST JUNE, SPIRED TOTAH TO BEG HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY.REALY TV STAR JAZZ JENNGS 'DOG GREAT' AFTER GENR-NFIRMATN SURGERY"LIKE MANY TRANS PEOPLE, I VELOPED SER ANXIETY AS I HID WHO I WAS. IN SOME WAYS, I FELT LIKE I WAS LYG BY LETTG PEOPLE BELIEVE I WAS THAT GAY BOY. I ALSO ULDN’T BE MYSELF. I HID THE GIRLS’ CLOTH I REALLY WANTED TO WEAR UNR SWEATPANTS AND SWEATSHIRTS. AND I HAD AN ENORMO FEAR OF MALE PUBERTY," SHE WROTE. "ONCE I GOT ON THE HORMONE BLOCKER, WHICH BASILLY STOPPED MY TTOSTERONE, THAT PART CHANGED. I WASN’T WAKG UP EVERY DAY AND PANICKG. 'IS THERE HAIR ON MY FACE? IS MY VOICE GETTG EPER?' THOSE CHANG ARE VERY HARD, IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE, TO REVERSE. AND I KNEW THAT I WAS GIVG MYSELF WHAT I NEED, THAT I DIDN’T HAVE TO BE AAID OF THAT ANYMORE."THE ACTRS WROTE THAT WHILE SHE'S STILL NERVO THAT BEG TRANSGENR WILL E HER TO FACE DISCRIMATN, SHE ADD THAT BEG LLED JOSIE MAK HER FEEL MORE "SEEN." AS SHE GO OFF TO LLEGE AND NTU TO PURSUE ACTG, SHE'S EXCED TO TAKE ON NEW ROL THAT SHE NEVER BEFORE THOUGHT POSSIBLE."IT’S SOMETHG EVERYONE WANTS, TO FEEL UNRSTOOD. AND, AS A SEMI-RELIG PERSON WHO WENT TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL, I HAVE E TO BELIEVE THAT GOD MA ME TRANSGENR. I DON’T FEEL LIKE I WAS PUT THE WRONG BODY. I DON’T FEEL LIKE THERE WAS A MISTAKE MA. I BELIEVE THAT I AM TRANSGENR TO HELP PEOPLE UNRSTAND DIFFERENC," SHE WROTE. "IT ALLOWS ME TO GA PERSPECTIVE, TO BE MORE ACCEPTG OF OTHERS, BEE I KNOW WHAT FEELS LIKE TO KNOW YOU’RE NOT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE."JENNGS TWEETED SHE WAS PROUD TO SEE TOTAH "LIVG YOUR TTH!!"UP NEXT CULTURE—DREW CAREY, ADAM SANDLER AND MORE CELEBRI PAY TRIBUTE TO BOB BARKERAUGT 26, 2023ALS ASSOCIATN GETS DONATN BOOST FOLLOWG ATH OF SANDRA BULLOCK'S PARTNER BRYAN RANDALL AUGT 26, 2023THOMAS RHETT AKS SHAR SUMMER ALBUM WH SWEET FAY PHOTOSAUGT 25, 2023SEE ARIANA GRAN PERFORM 'HONEYMOON AVENUE' TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF 'YOURS TLY,' HER BUT ALBUMAUGT 25, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—DREW CAREY, ADAM SANDLER AND MORE CELEBRI PAY TRIBUTE TO BOB BARKERAUGT 26, 2023ALS ASSOCIATN GETS DONATN BOOST FOLLOWG ATH OF SANDRA BULLOCK'S PARTNER BRYAN RANDALL AUGT 26, 2023THOMAS RHETT AKS SHAR SUMMER ALBUM WH SWEET FAY PHOTOSAUGT 25, 2023SEE ARIANA GRAN PERFORM 'HONEYMOON AVENUE' TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF 'YOURS TLY,' HER BUT ALBUMAUGT 25, 2023
Havg pigeonholed herself as a ‘young and gay’ actor, she fought siar feelgs on other projects. Totah, a former Disney actor, shared that throughout her childhood, “people would jt assume I was gay, ” and when she entered to the entertament dtry, “people kept assumg my inty. “Numero reporters have asked me terviews how feels to be a young gay man.