To Syd Sanders, who believes he’s the first transgender high school valedictorian in Maine and possibly in the U.S., his greatest achievement is simply being himself.“I just am who I am,” he recently told the Bangor Daily News. “I would probably be dead if I couldn’t be who I was.
I just have to be myself.”Sanders ranks at the top of his class at Belfast Area High School. He transferred there as a freshman after beginning his transition in eighth grade while going to school on Isleboro, an