My Story
Well I started out like this. I wanted to be a transsexual for long time. When I was 3 I
told my grandmother I wanted to be a woman. She thought it was so funny. My
grandmother has always been a big important person in my life. I love her very much.
I did go through some things with my family at first but I made it through all of them.
From the beginning. My mom was a small town girl from Monticello, Mississippi. She
had me at 17 in Jackson. When I was born she named me Tory. The name came
from the protestant group back in the 1600's. Well, she left me with my grandmother
while she went to school. My grandmother raised me till I was about 3 and then I
moved in with my mom in Jackson, Mississippi. I went to a little elementary school
called 4 seasons. That is where I fell in love with music. When I was 5 years old, I fell
crazy for this boy named Ramond. It was so weird. He liked me first. He pulled me
under the table and he kissed me. He always sat beside me in lunch. He told everyone
I was his girlfriend. I liked that allot. Well, I left school kinder garden and then went to
elementary school called North Jackson. I did not start realizing my sexuality then until
I got to the 3rd grade. In the 3rd grad a guy named Michael was interested in me. He
was so not my type really. He was very dark, but he looked like he could hurt me. I
was kind of afraid of him. That is when allot of people in school started calling me a
punk and a fag. I hated that. I got over it though. He ended up moving to another
school. Well I got name calling all through elementary, which made me realize I was
gay. Some guys used to tell me I am a girl trapped in a boys body. It was weird.
While in elementary I was very close to my family. My sexuality was not known at the
time. I had so many good cousins that loved me regardless. I had a cousin named Von
that I was very close to. I had another cousin named B that I would see sometimes
when I was little, but because of my sexuality, they would not let B really kick with me.
I had friends in my neighborhood when I was young. I remember Scooter, Nikki,
Jamaal, Kesha, Albert, Jimmy, Patsy, Ashika. Patsy and I were very close. We were
like best friends. Weird to say we were like sisters. She used to stick up for men when
I was in school. Then there was a girl named Leslie and her brother named Travis that
went to school with me and we were so close.
All my friends ended up being strait. Joanna and I were not so close then but got closer
as I got older. I had one friend that was in College that I meet at my aunt Lisa's dorm.
She was so cool and got married to this fine truck driver. Who was no good. When I
was in the 5th grade things changed a little, cause of this boy I liked named Walter. He
and I was supposed to fight cause he did not like me. He got scared when the teacher
came and ran. Because he ran off during the fight I actually won. I remember Chris a
friend of mine at the time and his girlfriend Lucinda. They told everyone I beat Walter
up. Walter and I got along later. He was cool with it, cause he did run off. Scooter
also threatened Walter that he would bet him up if he messed with me, and so did
Chris. So then I was like a boy kind of again, till I got to six grad and went to the Boy
scouts. That is where I saw that boys had some secrets. The boys were touching on
each other weird when I was there. I did not understand all that. Plus on remember
named Melvin said he would rape when wen I go to sleep. I was so confused. I was
like how is he gonna rape another boy. I also started so called dating this boy I like
named Cortez. Well not really dating, but he knew I liked him. He was only 4'11. It
was weird.
Junior High School
The next part of life life came in Junior High School. I went to school and it was weird
that everyone kind of knew me there. I went to Junior high in Clinton, MS and it was
mostly caucasion. I had not been around so many people of different colors in a long
time. I liked to to an extent. I think that being at this school kept me from getting in
many fights. This school had a stronger education though. I had to work hard. Well
there were two other homosexual or gays at the school at that time. These were the
ones that were known. I remember us trying to get a drill team together. We were all
in choir together. Kind of funny being choir boys. I guess. My friend Christy from
Elementary school came to Junior high with me. I had very few friends in Junior high.
The ones I could remember were Shelia, Christy, Tabitha, Missy, and the twins Lisa
and Lacey. They were cool. I was not that smart in school I will tell you. I hated to
do homework and my spelling an grammar was not that great.
My life changed when I went to 9th grade. That was the new part of my life. I was
like starting to really like boys and want to dress more. I was started to call boys on the
phone and pretend I was a girl and like try to court them. I could not understand. The
sad thing about going to school in Clinton was everyone knew my mom Cause she
worked there. I was like so out. Mrs Hodge was my home economics teacher. Her
daughters used to watch me and my little brother when I was a child. Mrs Hodge
helped us get a drill team started and we got to do events and stuff. It was so cool. I
was the only boy like on the team. I also was in the talent show that year. It was cool
also, I did Telvin Cambell cause a that time Iooked just like him.
I always had a best friend that was older than me to talk to . She was on her second
child at the same time my mother was pregnant with her third child. She named me the
God mom of both her children.