When I ask Nathan Westling what he sees in the mirror, he describes"a masculine version of my old self." His red hair is shorn short, his voice has deepened and his face seems more angular, despite the fact he's about 20 pounds heavier than he was six months ago.
But by last April, his priorities had shifted from his career to himself. After a decade spent receiving therapy and medication for depression, anxiety and anger issues, he finally decided to address what he'd always known to be the underlying problem. To do so, he decamped from his base in New York to Los Angeles to begin transitioning from life as Natalie to life as Nathan.
He's also candid about growing up in Scottsdale, Arizona, where"they look at the people like me -- or any gay, lesbian people, anybody in the LGBT scene -- as freaks because they're just ignorant, they're not educated." At his 3,000-plus-student high school, Westling remembers meeting only one openly gay student, and feeling he had no one with whom to safely discuss his gender dysphoria. But those feelings, he says, went back much further than high school.
in 2015."So when the doors were opened for me, I walked right through. And then the doors slammed ... Once the doors closed, I was no longer a woman and I no longer got the respect of a woman. People who used to say 'she' now said 'he,' and it's not who I am and it's not the person that I identify with. It's like you, as a person, no longer exist.
Style Good for him/her, whatever, but don’t care. Not news.
Style What's wrong with western people?
Style So!
Style A woman obviously wrote this as this kind of thing is what excites women. Its breaking news because another man has became a woman! Who cares?
Style Everybody else knew?🤫🤷🏽♀️
Style No way is this dude a model, I'm way better looking.
Style Who
Style Who F%ing cares!!! Where is the REAL news!! Yellow vests. Booming Economy. Lowest unemployment. Fewest on food stamps. Trump has highest approval rating of any President at this point in his Presidency. Highest approval among minorities!! No wonder your ship is sinking!!
Style In my opinion, this is sheer bullshitting. This person even does not take hormones, judging by the photo. Interviews alone to earn on advertising.
Style AllyssiaAlleyne Mental disorder.
Style Nobody cares. It's all mental.
Style Fake news.
Style Who cares
Style She is still a girl.
Style Because this is breaking news. How many others have can clean about this issue? It has came to the point that nobody really cares.
Style And in other news that matters: Once again...as is the case each day here in the USA = 20 million US children do not have enough to eat....each & every day. But don't worry...CNN covers all the important shit you really need to know to make you life complete.
Style Good for you. I wish you well. I just want to know why this is really newsworthy?
Style you are lisa simpson and that is all that matters.
Style Duh this ain't the first or the last
Style Thank you CNN for bringing this mental illness to light.
Style I am confused myself now
Style 2 genders
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Style the poor choice of words here, shoulda just said i was too scared lmao
Style Go see a therapist no one gives a shit.
Style Another caucasian down.
Style Hell yeah this owns.