Who Am I?

By asking this question, I started a journey.
Like any journey, it has had its highs and lows.
I was scared and excited.
I was lonely and I found new friends.
I had fun and I was sad.
Finding my way to my destination is full of challenges.
Through out my journey I had many questions and like many who have made this journey before, my questions may have started a long time ago.
Many of the best questions came from inside me.

For a long time I had felt 'different' than my friends or even people in my family.
I recognized that I felt different as early as the age of four.
In school I was called a sissy.
I was called the name because I was different, the name made me feel scared and hurt.
I felt angry.
I wanted the body I was suppose to have.

Many transgendered persons have a sense of 'differentness' very early in life.

In junior high I was put into a children's ward for kids with mental health issues. I was in there because I was transgender. They took all my creativity away, it was to feminine. I was forced to hide my true self for over 34 years, when I found I was not alone.

TRANSGENDERED is an umbrella term, relating to how some individuals express their gender identity. For some it may mean changing their gender, perhaps surgically; for others, to dress in the clothing of the opposite gender; for some to be free to express themselves as neither male or female; and for others it means having been born with ambiguous genitalia.