Like Jennings, Totah wrote, she decided to medically transition.
“I Am Jazz” is a docuseries which follows the life of transgender teen Jazz Jennings. But it crystallized about three years ago when I was a 14-year-old watching the show ‘I Am Jazz’ with my mother.”
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“Since I could speak in full sentences, I was like, “Give me a dress!” I always knew on some level that I was female. “When I was five, long before I understood what the word gender meant, I would always tell my mother that I wished I were a girl,” she wrote. She said she worried about confusing her fans, but had an awareness early on.
But that has never been the way I think of myself.” “I almost felt like I owed it to everybody to be that gay boy. “I understand that they didn’t really know better,” Totah wrote. That included being asked in interviews how it felt to be a young, gay man and being introduced as such while presenting an award for an LGBTQ organization. Then I found myself playing that role once I got into the entertainment industry, and people kept assuming my identity.” “On the playground, I was the type of kid who wanted to sing with the girls, not play soccer with the boys. “When I was really young, growing up in a small town in Northern California, people would just assume I was gay,” she wrote. Totah wrote that while she is grateful for the acting opportunities she’s had including in the TV series “Champions” and “Glee” and in films including “Other People,” she feels “like I let myself be shoved into a box: ‘J.J. “I identify as female, specifically as a transgender female. “My pronouns are she, her and hers,” she wrote. In an essay published by Time magazine Monday, the 17-year-old shared her news and announced her new name.
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