About

Documenting a journey in the hope of making others realise that it's okay not to be a heterosexual cisgender person.

I've had a Tumblr blog for the past few years but wanted to try and progress onto something more substantial. In 2016 you wouldn't think it's necessary to explain to people what being transgender means, and that it's not something that will completely ruin your chance of having a long happy life, but it seems that there's still a bit of work to do on understanding and acceptance. Hopefully I can shed some light on that and show that you can in fact function as a human-being, have friends, relationships, a family, a job and serve as a decent member of society as a trans person.

I will never make a big impact in comparison to someone like the amazing Laverne Cox but hopefully I'll be able to make a difference for a few people.

At the time of writing this I am now pretty much completely post medical transition, so I am going to be looking back over my experiences and thoughts from the past 5 years or so, from realising my gender identity and beginning to take action in order to align my body with my mind, and then what happened during the multiple surgeries I have undergone to do this, along with the psychological effects. I will share photos, some of which may be fairly graphic, so I will try to ensure there are warnings before these.

I never thought that I'd want to share my transition with anyone, especially strangers on the internet, but now I feel like if it has the potential to make the smallest positive impact on someone's life then it's worth the possible backlash and judgement from the close minded people that are still floating around out there. It hasn't been an easy few years, but where I am now in my life and the people I have around me, I wouldn't change for anything. So if there is any sort of negative reaction to this, I know I will be well supported. So here we go, let's see how it turns out.

Please note:

• This is only my personal experience, so I am in no way saying that this will be an accurate representation of every trans* person's transition.
• There will occasionally also be posts unrelated to being trans if there is something specific going on that I want to talk about.
• The timeline of posts may be a bit all over the place as there will be a mixture of current and historic experiences but I will try and keep things in an understandable order.

Written on 02/10/2016