In 2020, I was featured on National Geographic’s “Gender Revolution” documentary, hosted by Katie Couric. The documentary surveys the state of transgender and nonbinary lives in 2020, spanning the United States, Samoa, and other locations.
In our segment, Couric came to Yale and interviewed our cast members about gender pronouns and our own stories of transitioning.
I am a transgender man who came to Yale as a Division One runner on the women’s cross country team, only to change my name from “Isabel” to “Isaac” during junior year.
After being in the documentary, and being out as trans and a young professional for four years since then, I want to debunk a few misconceptions that people have about being transgender.