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| Pat Cordova-Goff stands on the field where she played baseball as a boy. Behind her is the softball field, which she now plays as a girl. Laura Kleinhenz for Al Jazeera America |
Because of California's recently enacted law, AB 1266, transgender students like Pat Cordova-Goff can participate in actvities and facitilites that align with their gender identity. Al Jazeera America highlighted Cordova-Goff's story:
When Pat Cordova-Goff was born 17 years ago, the hospital
marked her gender as male. It was true by conventional measures, but
Cordova-Goff never really felt like a boy.
On the playground, she jumped rope with girls, and they became her
confidantes. Some of her elementary-school classmates called her
homophobic slurs.
“I think over the years I realized that I can’t care what people are
going to say,” she said. “I can’t live my life that way, even though
sometimes it’s hard not to.”
Cordova-Goff came out as transgender as a sophomore in high school,
and now she colors her lips with a deep fuchsia hue and perks her
eyelashes with mascara. She listens to Alicia Keys and Beyoncé and says
Princess Diana is her idol. Cordova-Goff takes pride in attending Azusa High School in
California’s San Gabriel Valley, so she joined the cheer team before
identifying as transgender and continued to perform after coming out. As
a senior, she ran for student body president against a popular
candidate — and won.
Read the full story from Al Jazeera America here.
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