Gender affirmation surgery synchronized my appearance more closely with my own gender identity.
The reason I had always desired to be a woman was because my gender identity WAS female.
Gender-affirming surgery was essential and necessary for me. It was an intimate progression that included changing clothes, names, pronouns, and behaviors to fit my gender identity. I took legal steps to change my name and gender markers on government published identity records.
Laurence Patrick Gable became Lauren Patrice Gable.
It took me 49 years of unsuccessful manhood to take that step. My sex indicated the identity given to me at birth, based on my outward anatomy.
However, gender relates to my own sense of my behaviors, traits, and thoughts, often relative to my sex or to other members of my society.
My gender did not match being a male, which I why I aspired to be female from the time I was eleven years old
Logically, estrogen and other drugs caused lovely feminizing effects for me such as breast growth, a curvier body shape, and smoother skin, for which I was incredibly thankful.
I am delighted to be a woman. My satisfaction with my life, mental and physical health, as well as my social life improved after my surgical treatment. I know how incredibly lucky I am to finally BE a woman.
