Megan Leyman

Hello everyone!

This post is inspired by an image that you see below this, it got me thinking about the first time in public dressed up as a girl. Sadly no pictures of the event itself managed to hunt down pictures around the time to share instead.

As previously mentioned, from the time I was in school when I wanted to dress-up to be more like the person I wanted to be, I had to hide it by dressing up at home and making sure not to get caught or trying on clothes around a friends house.

I was way too nervous to go out dressed up, what would people think? Would I look convincing? What would someone say if they did catch me?

These were some of the thoughts I had in my head for years, around 2015 (I was 25, currently at the time of this post I am 33) I finally gained the courage to go out dressed up.

I decided on getting my nails done down at a salon in the village I live near, only a few minutes down the road. I was able to book an appointment online to get it on a day when I was off work and the rest of the family was at work. I decided that this will be my first time dressing up, I can’t remember too much what I was wearing but I had a wig on along with some blue jeans and trainers and took my time walking down.

God I was so nervous, thankfully this was in the middle of the day I only had 1 person walk past me but they were too busy with there own thing, I just wanted to get to the salon so was trying my best not to draw any attention to myself.

The staff at the salon were really nice, just found my old emails confirming the appointment and I went by Megan all those years ago too.

Somehow I was able to get away with the nails I had for work and while at home, this surprised me as my mum and family would normally spot that sort of thing.

After this I did get the courage to go into town to a few shops but can’t remember how far that was. Years later I can go out dressed up whatever and not get any issues which is amazing.

As said before, people really don’t care what you do unless you give them a reason to.

I am grateful for how I was before, I’ve learnt so much on what to do and what not to do, especially thankful for the people who supported me then and still support me now.

Thank you.

Megan