![Tori Bertran, Subserve youth group manager, is photographed outside her office on Tuesday, October 13, 2015. Tori Bertran, Subserve youth group manager, is photographed outside her office on Tuesday, October 13, 2015.](https://www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2015/11/16/GEFIW3FCGJFUPFPZHDQGGULIJI.jpg?w=535)
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Tori Bertran, Subserve youth group manager, is photographed outside her office on Tuesday, October 13, 2015. Tori Bertran had a “very unhappy childhood” in South Florida that had nothing to do with her upbringing.
“My childhood was miserable in a very specific way because I was trans,” said Bertran, born in 1974 to Cuban parents who named her Alejandro. “It had nothing to do with whether my family was with me or not. They were a great family. I loved them and they continue to love me, but when you’re a trans kid and you can’t live out your life as you see it, I just found myself very, very miserable.”
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