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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.
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. Totah allowed people to intify her as a gay man but stggled si wh the misreprentatn.
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.