https://freerepublic.com/tag/homoprimechoice/ en-us Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:04:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1215017/posts Alyn Libman won a $15,000-a-year scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley with a resume that showed more than just Libman's athletic achievement and academic potential. It also showed years of ridicule, beatings and threats, along with Libman's decision to become a boy in 11th grade. "It felt amazing to actually be embraced by someone who didn't just dismiss me for being different," said Libman, a 19-year-old aspiring civil rights lawyer and the first transgendered person to win a scholarship from The Point Foundation, a Chicago nonprofit organization that has awarded more than $1 million to college-bound gays since... San Francisco Chronicle https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1215017/posts#comment Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:04:28 GMT