Hello Everyone!

Hello everyone!  My name is Brooke!  I'm 36, I'm a transgender woman!  It feels good to say all of that. I guess I've started my journey around a couple years ago.  Can't say I ever liked how I looked in pictures until I used that snapchat gender filter.  It was an odd experience for me, to realize that what I didn't like was the gender staring back at me in the mirror.  I don't expect that I'll ever look the way I did in the filter (and not sure if I'd want to to be honest lol).  I think I would say that I accepted being a trans woman sometime between March and May.  Since then I've been struggling with family--I'm married--so there are complications with that.  I'm pre-everything, and not sure if I will transition or not but I want to.  I don't know that I could convince myself that I didn't want to.

I'm at a point where I wish I had my own space to experiment more, order clothes, learn make up, start voice training, etc.  I think finding a therapist would be beneficial and I would like to consider HRT.  But I also think meeting others and making some friends would also be helpful.  I have started to respond to surveys with being a transgender woman, or where I can respond privately I identify as female/transgender woman.

I think that's all for me!  Sorry if this is a bit much for an intro!  (Proceeds to write a book after this...)

Oh, I guess I could add some other stuff more about myself!  I like playing MMORPGs (FFXI, FFXIV), a bit of a nintendo fan.  This sounds weird but I feel like I'm addicted to running servers.  I don't really have any users at this point due to lack of stability and time to sink into running them.  I have a few private servers that I've been running I think the most up to date server is my minecraft server.  I'm a programmer at a health insurance company.  In real life I like long walks in the woods--well or short walks too--I'm interested in photography as a hobby (nature mostly).  I used to love bicycling but I'm quite out of shape at this point.  Ok that's all for me!  (For real this time!)  Thanks for reading!