I just came from looking in the mirror where I saw a 50-year-old woman smiling back at me.
It was me. After 49 years attempting to be a man, I finally became a woman in 2017. The woman I had dreamed of being since I was 11-years old.
My gender identity had been a woman then, but I didn't know it. I only knew that I ached to be female for all those years.
I cross-dressed for 25 years in Florida, but it was not enough.
I lived as a woman for four years in California, but it was not enough.
Finally, gender affirmation surgery gave me the body that I had always wanted to have. Breasts, soft skin, pretty legs, a shapely body, and my own hair.
I am so incredibly happy to be a woman. Even if it did take more than half my life to make it true.
