So you're born morphologically a male. But you've always felt like you should have been female. You decide to try an cure yourself by doing the most masculine thing you can think of; becoming a career Navy Seal, repeatedly deployed to combat operations.
Nope. Didn't work.
According to the brief overview I heard on the radio she didn't come out earlier for fear being killed. She doesn't care if anybody likes her or not, but would prefer not to be beaten and/or murdered. Sounds fair to me.
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