Hello everyone!
I noticed that this week is #Transawarenessweek so thought I would share my experiences as someone who is transgender.
Since I was 13 (currently 33), I felt like something was wrong with me, I really admired the women and girls in my life which got me to think a lot about the body I was born with. I want to say that with the admiration I had it was like I saw them as role models, how they did things and what they had to experience, no matter they had to go through, I wanted to do go through too.
I just thought it was just a phase so I didn’t think much of it at the time, so I tried my best to put it aside while finishing off school and moving on to college for a few years.
But this admiration for women reared its head again, this convinced me to try cross dressing, which I experimented with when I was in school to try to look like a girl (with not much luck). I was able to get support from friends this time around and that was great. At this time, I just thought I was just a cross dresser, I didn’t know how else I could explain what I was.
Normally on my blog I am pretty open about my experiences and I want to say what I truly experienced while cross dressing but I will just say that it gave me a high because I could fantasise about being a girl etc.
Anyway that aside, cross dressing continued on and off til I decided to speak to a doctor about these feelings because I was really getting confused about why I sometimes disliked the body I had.
I was informed that I might be transgender and I was referred to Gender Services.
I had to wait 2 years or so to finally be seen at Gender Services and it was confirmed that I was transgender, this made me happy as this explained so much about what I was thinking after all these years.
Since then I have been given a lot of great advice to help me start my transition, such as help on getting hormones and speech therapy and has shown me a route on having the option to have a much needed surgery but I have gone into this in other posts on the blog.
I started my transition around 4 years ago after a few years of debating if I should do it and was proven right on coming out as I have been extremely lucky to have great support from family, friends & work.
It’s a learning experience for myself and other people around me, so I have decided to not make a big deal if people call me sir or man at work from customers as a lot of them really don’t mean it, if I had to stop and correct the occasional person, it would distract me from my work.
Really nowadays people really do not take notice of what you do, unless you give them to and that works out great for me as I try not to make a big deal on my decision (I know this isn’t the same for everyone and I say not to make a big deal when I’ve got a blog mostly decided to it).
I am the happiest I have been in many years (see the pic I’ve used for the thumbnail, taken by Khandie Photography) , I am transgender, I am Megan.
Megan Leyman 
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