Inspire Resource

Torranice
Campel
Life as a T girl “we say” comes
with many life challenges.
As a child I had matured
faster than others my age.
I knew early about who I was and who I was going
to be. Growing up, everything I did seemed to be
wrong. “Boys wear this and act like this” people
would say. Names like ‘Fag!’ ‘Poofter!’ and ‘Queer’
were said to me a lot. I didn’t really understand
or know what they meant, but what I did know
was that these words weren’t words of kindness
because people would say them with anger.
School wasn’t any interest to me. I hated it so
much. Some boys just loved to bully me. My
sister who was a year older would have to come
to my rescue every day and defend my battles for
me. The one thing that I will always remember
about school, was the love and support I received
from our nurse department.
At the age of 16 I had left school because I was
over the bullying. I left with limited education,
not understanding its importance until I learnt
for myself that my reading and spelling wasn’t so
good. I signed up at a course thinking I could start
off trick, playing unsprung but that didn’t happen.