Josie Totah Shares First Photo Since Coming Out Transgender
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- On Top Magazine Staff
- | September 16, 2018
Recently out Josie Totah has shared her first photo since coming out transgender.
The 17-year-old Totah, who appears on the NBC comedy Champions, came out transgender in August in a personal essay published in Time.
“What'd i miss?” Totah captioned a photo of herself wearing black jeans on Instagram.
In her coming out essay, Totah said that she realized she was transgender while watching I Am Jazz, the reality show starring transgender teen Jazz Jennings.
“I always knew on some level that I was female,” she said. “But it crystallized about three years ago when I was a 14-year-old watching the show I Am Jazz with my mother.”
Totah, who as a child played a recurring role on the Disney Channel's Jessie, said that people assumed she was a “gay boy,” making her feel “like I owed it to everybody to be that gay boy.”
She added that she was excited to start college and continue her acting career “as myself.”