190: Living the Dream
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Tito's 18 lives in Los Angeles lean and handsome and dark with a bare-cought tattooed onto each cheek And when he talks about his life this far, he says he just didn't have a choice about certain things when I was Basically when I was locked up in juvenile detention I was there for a year and I really believe that if you locked up a year just with a whole bunch of guys It really commenced with your mental stage because I Was I act act all hard I act like a dude. I'm most likely I dressed it like a guy and Try to do everything like a guy Play basketball but deep inside these world males Can really know that it's just like it's just a act It's like really your girl What you acting like a dude It can be very very very frustrated and confusing when you are like around a whole bunch of males Because what starts to happen when you're around other males It's like the deep side of you the female parts trying to come out and Try to just try to say something But deep inside you pushing that person back down It's like the egg of cracking and the female is becoming birth I Know it sounds very freaky, but this is totally real If you're trying to figure out who you are it's funny what can inspire you what could be helpful and give you strength Tito for example is an M&M fan the night M&M performed at the Grammys drawing protesters gay protesters I called him homophobic and misogynist Tito was at a party with gay kids and bisexual kids and transsexual kids kids who are actually born as boys But live as girls. We're all watching the Grammys on TV and cheering for M&M Tito explains it this way. Here's this white guy M&M He somehow felt that part of black culture was just inside him And decided that he would rap like a black guy And ended up able to pass in that world transgender people is the same way. It's a boy that feels like a woman inside and Want to be free to go ahead and explore that so they want to dress like a girl and acting like a girl It's in the same category for somebody that feels black inside. I feel so I'm Caucasian But I feel black inside and I want to explore my side and I think if M&M can do it Anybody can I mean transgender shit, too There's a deep part of American culture which is all about the idea that you can make yourself into anyone How many of our movies are about the idea that I'm gonna be a star? I'm gonna sing dance take Wall Street by storm own this crazy town see my name in lights someday be a gangster Somebody be a real boy. Somebody get to Washington and make a difference someday leave my uncle's farm on Tatooine become a Jedi Knight like my father What today on our program stories of people who felt this very American call to be something that they were not and who then Willed it to happen From WB easy Chicago and public radio international. It's this American life I'm our glass our program today in three acts that one girls girls girls Story of teenagers who were born as boys, but live as girls in Los Angeles at two Agent to the stars a fan's unlikely dream to meet his favorite movie star accidentally works Partly to his delight partly to his horror at three Aria shalom Chiman Paris David Ben-Gorian and me an American teenager who dreams someday of becoming the prime minister of a nation where he does not even reside Stay with us Aquine girls girls girls Over the last ten years in Los Angeles there has been a noticeable increase in the number of transsexual teenagers
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