I’m A Me

Someone wrote…

I’m 42 years old. For my entire life the idea of being a woman has felt like a constant hassle. Heels, tights, skirts, make-up… I could never do it and I have grown up believing I am a failure at life. I have mental health troubles as a result and sometimes just want to shut myself away.

Fortunately 20 years ago I fell in love with the man who eventually became my husband and over the years he has given me the space and the permission to be the true me. I have recently befriended a wonderful trans guy and I have fantastic LGBTQ friends who I cosplay with and they are helping me to come out to myself.

I don’t quite know where I sit on the gender spectrum but I am getting better at accepting that I am not a woman. I’m a me.

What’s your experience?

And what are you thinking about gender right now?


Posted by on November 16th, 2015 at 08:00 am

Category: your voice Comment »


Leave a Reply


Can I show your picture? If you have a Gravatar associated with this email address, it will be displayed as your photo. If not, I'll just put a picture of a fork next to your comment. Everybody likes forks.

Be nice. Judgmental comments will be quietly deleted and blacklisted. There's plenty of room for those elsewhere on the web.

For legal reasons, you must be age 13 or older to post a comment on Genderfork.

You can use some HTML tags for formatting, e.g. <em>...</em> for emphasis (italics) or <strong>...</strong> for strong emphasis (bold) or <a href="http://(url)">...</a> for links.


Back to top