Shocking! People.com Editor Janet Mock Reveals She Was Born A Boy

She was once called Charles, but Janet Mock’s always known she was female. She and her partner, Aaron, discuss the new grey areas of human sexuality.
Twenty-three years ago, Janet Mock was a barefoot kid playing in the streets of Kalihi, a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Honolulu, when a game of truth or dare set in motion the defining story of her life. In the game, she plucked her grandmother’s dress from a washing line, put it on and ran down the street. It seems like a laughably innocent thing for a little girl to do, but back then Janet was not, biologically at least, a girl. She began life as Charles, the first-born son of her Hawaiian mother and African-American father.

NEW YORK– Popular blogger and People.com editor Janet Mock  goes on the record in a candid interview revealing that she was in fact born a boy in a recent interview with Marie Claire. In the interview, Mock goes deep discussing her upbringing as a boy, her operation, losing her virginity and her current relationship.

She 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.