From USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/volleyball/2013/05/08/taylor-edelmann-purchase-college-mens-volleyball-transgender-player/2144599/
PURCHASE, N.Y. — Who is Taylor Edelmann?
He’s a 21-year-old Purchase College senior, a native of Bethel, Conn., and a captain of the men’s volleyball team. He’s a resident assistant, a club co-president and a research assistant. On the off chance he has a spare moment between practices, games and meetings, he’s a drummer in a jam band on campus.
And, he is formerly a she.
Born a female, Edelmann identifies as a male and has been undergoing a physical transition, via testosterone shots, for more than a year and a half. But Edelmann said that’s only a small part of what makes him the person he is.
“The thing is, I’m not different at all,” Edelmann said. “It’s just, I took a different course of action to get where other people are, and that’s totally fine. That’s kind of how I see it. It shouldn’t really be a big deal.”
Edelmann isn’t one to exaggerate. Trapped in the wrong body? No, more like aligning his body with how he felt.
“I just had to make a couple of alterations to it,” Edelmann said. “Basically, kind of like, change the tires, put a new paint job on, that kind of thing.”
That’s the type of child Debbie and Joe Edelmann raised. A competitive spirit was instilled in Taylor, the youngest of five children, at an early age — and it has stayed with him. To this day Debbie Edelmann believes that, if any of her other children went through what Taylor did, there would have been a much darker result.
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