Newsweek that suddenly "it all made sense."Seeing another person experience the same concern was enlightening, and knowing it was a possibility, Teran looked into transitioning.
At 18, she finally took the leap and began transitioning to a male. "It's hard to explain the joy, everything just fell into place," she said."I began socially transitioning on and off from 16, but by 17 I was identifying as a male full-time.
My family knew, but only through my mom. I still went with my birth name and female pronouns because I wasn't comfortable doing anything else at such early stage.
I had short hair and masculine clothes, but I was well aware that I still looked female."I started testosterone two weeks after turning 18, and I was on that for half a year before I changed my legal name to Nicolas, and started living completely as a man.