Table 3.

Navigating sexual modalities along with gender modalities.

Participant pseudonym	Age at time of interview	Sexual identity before transition	Sexual identity during transition	Current sexual identity
Yaël	23	Attracted to girls, thought they were lesbian (began to question)	Realized that they were not just lesbian (were trans)	"Tapette" (faggot)
Jada	22	Attracted to women but did not know that she was lesbian because she did not have the words and representation of what a lesbian is.	Lesbian	Lesbian
Sam	25	Lesbian, trying to be heterosexual	Bi (because she was attracted to trans men)	Lesbian
Shane	21	Bisexual	Bisexual	Bisexual
Lea	19	Did not think that she was lesbian	Unsure	Lesbian
Billie	16	Liked girls but thought that she was a boy	Straight	Lesbian
Nolan	25	N/A	Bisexual	Pansexual or queer