Reply To: Do you want to be a girl?

[Jackie Rusalka]

Do I want to be a girl?  For me the answer has always been yes.  I’ve never felt comfortable in male skin, and the feeling as far back as I can remember is that the person looking back at me in the mirror is female.  A long like cross dresser from an early age,  there was a sense of peace that nothing else could quite quench.  With life getting in the way, I’ve made the decision that my life would not be complete if I could not live at least part of it openly as the woman I have always been.  Interestingly enough, being as myopic as I am, when I step out of the shower with no glasses, I can imagine what a physically female me could be like, and it looks beautiful.