One of the luckiest things to make my life as woman more satisfying was the fact that I had lost forty pounds in Burbank before I underwent my gender affirmation surgery at Tampa General Hospital in 2017.
It took about one year to heal and get used to my new body after my surgery, with help from Cindy, a transwoman whose transition had been in 2015.
Starting in January 2018, one day after my 50th birthday, I began working for an online company in Tampa called Human Resources Inc. writing and editing material for large firms from my home office in St. Petersburg.
It was my first job as a woman.
The only individual in the company who knew that I was a transwoman was the boss, Laurie Lykins, a real woman.
One pleasing thing about being back in Florida was that I was able to rejoin a great Unitarian Universalist church in St. Petersburg that welcomed gays, transgendered and all others. Several of my gay friends were still there from when I had been a man and they were deliriously happy to see me as a woman.
Finally. I am the WOMAN I had always WANTED to be.
