![]() I thought it was ridiculous and refused, which made him even angrier. He beat the shit out of me and took me to his church the next day, where he tried to force me to have an exorcism performed on me to try and drive the gayness out of me. To say that he didn’t take it well is a major understatement. I yearned to be able to do the same around my family and eventually decided that it was time to stop living a lie and tell my dad I was transgender. I was aware that I was a girl trapped in a male body from a very young age, and used to secretly dress as a girl at my gay friend’s house. I had a comfortable upbringing financially speaking, and my life would have been relatively easy if I hadn’t been transgender. My dad was a lawyer, and paid for me to attend a private school. ![]() This is what she told me.ĭuring my early years, I never envisioned that I would be mixing with drug lords and involved with the streets. She said a chance meeting with the local drug baron changed her life, even if the danger and the violence of the drug trade never went away. As a teenager, Gabriela was driven out of her home by the abuse she suffered at the hands of her Christian fundamentalist father, and ended up on the streets. It was also a relationship in part borne out of the severe difficulty of growing up trans in a conservative home.
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