People.com Editor Janet Mock Reveals She Was Born a Boy

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» by Randy Roper May 21, 2011, 9:14am

Janet Mock, People.com Editor Reveals She Is Transgender

People.com editor and popular blogger Janet Mock revealed some shocking information in her interview with Marie Claire Magazine.

The 28-year-old editor opened up to the publication and admitted that she is transgender, and was in fact born a boy.

Mock tells Marie Claire:

"Once, when I was 5-years-old, a little girl who lived next door to my grandmother dared me to put on a muumuu and run across a nearby parking lot. So I did.

I threw it on, hiked it up in one hand, and ran like hell. It felt amazing to be in a dress. But suddenly my grandmother appeared, a look of horror on her face.

I knew immediately that I had crossed some kind of line.

While on these hormones, I lost my virginity at age 17 to a guy I met while I was working at a boutique.

He knew my background but said he didn't care. Even though I trusted him, I couldn't relax and insisted on keeping the lights off."

The writer spoke openly about her upbringing in Honolulu, Hawaii, and life as a transgender, but also told her story on her own website:

“As puberty began to hit in middle school, my body began to change, betraying Janet.

It was difficult living in a body that did not reflect me at my best self, and it became the central drama of my first 18 years.

During the eighth grade, I began incorporating cosmetics (Lipsmackers, Wet N Wild eyeliner, CoverGirl compacts) into my beauty regimen.

I was teased, taunted and targeted for this gender variance, but my accomplishments and involvement in school soon overshadowed my non-conformity.

By freshman year, I was dressing as my female self and was soon known as Janet through the halls of my high school in Kalihi, a tough part of Honolulu.

But writing about famous people only allowed me to express a minutiae of my talents. My wakeup call to a higher purpose came in the fall of 2010.

It was apparent that being different (whether you were gay or transgender, overweight or rail-thin, dark or albino) was a matter of life or death.

I knew that writing my memoir Fish Food in silence was no longer an option. I had to speak up.”

Read more about Janet Mock's transgender story here.

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4 Responses to “People.com Editor Janet Mock Reveals She Was Born a Boy”

This is freaking disgusting...

» by TruthHurtzFakes 5/21/11, 17:10:pm Profileview profile | Reply

    low life, good for nothing imbecile! How can you hear something so inspiring, but equally heart-wrenching as someone's struggle to find themselves and say it's disgusting?

    You're not a human being. You're an evil person and I hope someday you have to deal with something this sensitive and someone out there will say you are freaking disgusting.

    you are an idiot with no bearing, and no humanity.

    i will pray for you, so that somewhere in that dark, dirty heart of yours, you find solace and peace

    » by gretch 5/23/11, 12:25:pm Profileview profile | Reply

Good for you Janet!! I'm glad you are happy and liing the life you dreamed. Maybe if more people did that you wouldn't have the amount of haters on the Earth.

@Elenor I agree.. if she wouldn't have said anything, no one would have known....

» by CoSign 5/22/11, 06:03:am Profileview profile | Reply

I am a fan of Kim Kardashian, but I am appaled at the amount of money spent on her wedding. A wedding cake that cost 10 thousand dollars is per selfishnish. There are many people in this country that could have been feed with that kind of money. It shows me that some people make to much money and are sel absorbed. I understand that she wanted a nice wedding BUT the amount spent is SINFUL.

» by Deborah VanWestrienen 8/28/11, 20:54:pm Profileview profile | Reply