I have been dressing since I was REALLY young and as I get older, it becomes a bigger and bigger part of my life. I really feel quite strongly that the only way that the 'T-community' will become more and more accepted is if we are seen and/or if it is KNOWN that we are T-girls (to what ever degree that is for all of us). I am sick and tired of being worried about having residual traces of make up (especially eye liner - you can always tell!) and also, why not just be blooming' honest about who we are?
To that end, I am seriously considering coming out to all of my close friends. My true friends are intelligent, lovely people and a handful of them already know. Without exception, I have so far had a completely positive response which has surprised me. I have even been told a couple of times that this just makes me even more interesting as a friend, which is a lovely thing to say. Plucking up the courage to do this is a big thing for all of us and I wondered what motivating reasons other girls had had for coming out to friends.