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Sustained winds, gusts 40 Miles Per Hour and higher gusts up to 60 miles an hour in the upper elevations. We will look at the period of rain heaviest in the Morning Hours and a possibility of thunderstorms once the cool air moves in behind the system. We are still look at heavy rain in hay wood. And we will talk about how it lingers in monday coming up in a few minutes. Carolyn. Sounds good. With more, wet weather on the way, many people are bracing for another hit. Abc7 News Reporter Lisa Amin Gulezian has the story. Its a pain, but its okay. Being in the dark with a toddler for this long isn...

All the teachers that directly work with chris would know, but nobody else would. >> but even with all the careful planning, the class list still said julia. >> since my name hadn't officially been changed, i was nervous about the teachers calling me, like, the wrong name. and, of course, that happened. >> i hopped out of my seat and said, that's the wrong name. it is suppose to be chris. oh, okay. >> chris was successfully transitioning socially, but that could not change his body. it kept developing like a woman's. he needed medication to block the production of the female hormone, estrogen....

He had, you know, just a lot of intense feelings about it. >> so intense that karina started to teach chris at home where he could be who he was, neither boy nor girl. but one semester of home schooling was enough for chris. >> he said to me that he would rather go to school than be home-schooled and he'd rather be dead than go to school as a girl. i saw my job as helping my kids to figure out who they were and helping them to become who they saw themselves as. it kind of felt like my theory is being that kind of mother was really being tested. and i didn't have a clue what to do. >> karina ha...

>> chris was starting to feel very panicky. i was starting to feel panicky because of chris' reaction. his breasts started developing a little bit, and he got very uncomfortable with that, so we took an ace bandage and would bind him. >> but hope was not lost. the doctor found a cheaper estrogen blocker, one that included tamoxifen, a common breast cancer medication. at age 12, chris had officially begun his medical transition. chris' mentor, evan davis, was 49 before he started his physical transition to manhood. unlike chris, evan grew up in shame and fear of being transgender, and it took h...

Be a boy getting a period. >> he had a little bit of bleeding, like a drop on a piece of toilet paper, and it sent him into a complete panic. so i called the doctor, and he felt it was time to start on the testosterone. >> but the cost is high. taking the shots is a point of no return. it means his ovaries will atrophy and he won't be able to have children. and that's okay with chris. >> i was very thrilled, and evan was very thrilled for me also. >> i was very thankful he doesn't have to go through what i went through. ready. >> evan gave me my first shot because he had been giving it to hims...