reflection

As i look back on the last three years of my journey a lot of things have changed. Well Aug 1st is officially my three year anniversary on HRT. In those three years i have become more of the true person that i am. When i first started hrt i was hiding it from my family. I was sneaking around dressing when I could I would do my makeup and change in a parking lot then when i was almost home take everything off and go back into male mode. When I started on here and our sister site CDH i kept it a secret. I wouldn't be on it around anyone i used a prepaid credit card for the membership. When i was asked by one of the members to hang out i said ok now being the first time i would be out with someone as me. I told my family i was going to hang with an old work friend. Then when I started going out regularly I used the same story. Then in March of 2023 I went to my first cd/tg conference. I was very nervous that I would fit in once i got there I felt like i belonged. At this time I was out to certain family members. This is the time when I had to come out to my mother. The family has a small auto repair shop and she had my car down to get tires on it for the trip. I thought I took everything out of the car that was related to Kimberly I was wrong. In the sun visor of the driver side I left my paperwork for my therapist. She found the paperwork and we went to the store that night. As we were going she looked at me and asked why are you going to therapy and why does it say Kimberly with your name. That is when I looked at my mother and said I am just going to come out and say it I am trans. It went better then I expected at first she didn't understand it but has come around. This year has had two big events happen in the journey. #1 I moved to a different state to be who I am. #2 i filed the paperwork for my legal name change. It has been granted I am just waiting for the official paper so i can start to change everything over. The reason for this is to let anyone that is struggling to know the journey is a long one sometimes a tough one and that most of us have had some hard times but also good times. I hope maybe someone reads this and realizes it will turn out ok just takes time 

Kimberly Dawn