The student of “Survivor” Teeny Chirichillo came out as a transgender in a new sincere essay.
The 24 -year -old recognized that he fought with his identity through his time in season 47, which was broadcast last year, and is still discovering it today.
“The state of my life since ‘Survivor’ has been full of uncertainty,” he wrote for Cosmopolitan on Wednesday.
“I made a spouse or a full -time race return, as many of my cast partners did. I made the passion to replace the search for 15 years that I was choosing. When I think of my future, there is a lot of pure handling. My identity in the approach, inside the museum of my own transserca.”
Chirichillo, who identified himself as non -binary while competing in the CBS program, recalled having read the “invasive” comments online immediately after the route of his season in early 2024.
“I visited the debates about my pronouns, whether I would tell ‘as a girl or boy or both or Neith, if I had a penis, and (my personal favorite) if I had TBOY tea or non -binary tea,” hey.
The writer admitted that “he was not ready” to label on national television at that time, partly during a “social policy game.”
Hi, also worried about making her co -star “panic for the brass” her pronouns, who were she/she at that time, although then went through them/them.
“It is an almost inevitable mistake for those who still learn,” he said.
However, Chirichillo quickly opened his tribe about having gone to a superior surgery consultation only a few days before flying to film the successful series.
“I joked with my cast that I was giving my tits a last delight before leaving them using an insem sports bra or a folder for the first time in almost two years. The union of the chest on a desert island for 25 days is a non-logo.”
After returning home, the native of New Jersey began to question his non -binary label and realized that “he had been a trans closet guy.”
“Just knowing this, when writing this, there is a part of my brain that cannot be closed,” he wrote.
Chirichillo shared that he or asked his parents, grandmother and girlfriend feeling his transgender, in addition to worrying about the cost of testosterone injections.
“I do not hope that everyone reaches the same level of ease with my genre that I have reached after a life of suppression and then explored childhood in my soul,” he concluded. “But I know who I am.”
