"I can promise you that women working together -linked, informed and educated- can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet." -Isabel Allende
One of my gay friends at my Unitarian Universalist church gave me a birthday card in 2019 with this inside:
"You have the most beautiful heart and soul, Lauren. Hearing your voice brings me so much joy. The way you care for the people in your life inspires me. Your intelligence and passion are attractive. I love you, Lauren."
Each moment on this earth is a gift and as a woman I enjoy it. I am thankful for the present moment, it's all that you are guaranteed.
I am so much better a woman than I ever was as a man. It saddens me that I spent so many years as a male. All my friends were women and I married two of them, but I was not enough of a man to sustain our marriages.
The ache in my heart from wanting to be a woman colored every day of my life.
If I had known about gender affirmation surgery back then, I'd have done it immediately.
Instead, I wasted my life as a man for 49 years.
That's why I am so proud to finally be the woman I had always wanted to be.
