Hello all. I’m Trans, Gender Non-Conforming, Lesbian, Entirely Asexual though I have on the rare occasion fallen in love with a best friend who I was intellectually and emotionally deeply connected to so at the time Demisexual. I came out as trans in the late 1990s among my Gay and Lesbian friends who told me that isn’t a real thing. In 2003, I started therapy and HRT.
At that time in history there was almost no real support system or insurance. I found a therapist and doctor who conformed to WPATH required living in the target gender for a year before signing the required two letters for surgery.
I was working in the IT division of a bank in Ohio and sent a letter to HR notifying them of my intention to change my legal, social, and medical identity to female in Spring of 2004. So, I started living full time everywhere else in life, then went full time at work May 20th of 2004. I had SRS as we called in with Dr Toby Meltzer in Scottsdale, Arizona in August 2006.
I had thought the worst that would happen, aside from losing all my friends and family, was that I would have to start my career over, work my way back from the bottom as a certified Technician or programmer. Instead, I watch as my entire life went up and flames and ash. I discovered that my education, skills, experience meant nothing.
So, I had to reinvent a new life without friends or community.