I spent most of my life knowing that I was not quite aligned in body and mind. From an early age I used to dream and wish that little boys evolved into adulthood as women, and the little girls grew up to be men. It was a recurring thought that was with me in my early teenage years. As time progressed then these feelings and thoughts developed and became more real.
There comes a point when you take a look at your life and decide that the way things are just not working, whether it is your relationship, your job or as in my case, how I was expressing my gender identity. For many years I had realised that the gender I was living and functioning as didn’t match how if felt inside and who I was. I can't rationalise that, I can't explain it in any logical way, it was just how I was feeling. Something that has grown inside me for as long as I can remember back into my early years.
