Digital Transgender Archive

Interview with Quinn Villagomez

Quinn Villagomez identifies as a biracial female and trans woman. She was assigned male at birth and was born and raised in north Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has an older sister who struggles with learning disabilities, and her parents divorced when she was 5. She was bullied, talked about, and called names, such as faggot, queer, sissy, gay, and tranny in school. Villagomez wasn’t athletic and was shy and reserved, taking her studies seriously. Villagomez also struggled in school since she was biracial in a predominately white school. She knew something was different about herself and that she was in the wrong body. She was more feminine and secretly knew she was a girl living inside a boy’s body. She once attempted suicide and deals with self-doubt and people in her life who are unsupportive of her as a person and woman. She struggles with depression and self-confidence, dealing with people who are confused by her gender, and she is very reserved in certain aspects of her life in public settings. She’s been out since she was 18 and started wearing more feminine clothing, makeup, and jewelry. She was never comfortable sharing who she was with her family even though she believes they know. They just don’t talk to her about it. She went to the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis for a year to become an English teacher and then left since she didn’t know if she could do it. She graduated from Brown College in Mendota Heights, Minnesota in 2003 with her Associates degree in radio broadcasting. She got an internship in promotions at one of her favorite radio stations in the Twin Cities at 101.3 KDWB. In 2014 she cohosted with Roxanne Anderson on KFAI Radio, Fresh Fruit. She’s now starting to host some concerts and events for local Twin Cities artists. Villagomez hasn’t had any medical interventions. She wants to be on hormones but financially it’s too expensive for her since her health insurance doesn’t cover it. She’s never been in a relationship before nor had a boyfriend, she says, but she does want to be in a relationship with a guy.