We are all assigned a gender at birth. Sometimes that assignment doesn’t match our inner truth, and there needs to be a new place — a place for self-identification. I was not born a boy, I was assigned boy at birth. Understanding the difference between the two is crucial to our culture and society moving forward in in the way we treat – and talk about – transgender individuals … In today’s globally connected and ever-diversifying world, culture is now more fluid and more flexible than ever — and so too should be our understanding and perception of gender.