Kimberly Marie Kelly
07-22-2009, 08:59 PM
Today I sent an email to every friend in my personal email address book. As I have told my family and some close friends and they have all been accepting of Kimberly, I felt it was time to start telling my friends. here is the email I sent to my friends;
Dear Friends,
Recently, I told my brother a revelation, the funny thing is he revealed to me a revelation. He told me that God made me different from him, he said he knew I was distinctly unique from age 11. That would have made me about 9, My revelation which I have just come to understand in the last 10 months is that I am a transsexual, essentially a woman inside a male body. My brother told me that he knew from age 11, that I thought more like a girl than a boy, I disliked pretty much any activity that boys engaged in. As I grew older I realized that I was different but could not pinpoint or understand the reason. Many transsexuals realize at a very early age they are girls in a boy's body and deal with their situation early in their lives. For me, like other transsexuals, we go thru life not knowing what is different about us, we lead the life that others expect of us. We marry, have families, but as we grow older this person, this inner feminine person yearns to be her and to no longer live the persona we have lived all of our life's.
As I have come to accept myself, that I am a woman inside, a calm has come over me and I have been more at peace with myself than ever before. I am finally happy with myself. I realize that this is going to be a shock to some and a lot of information to absorb. I have accepted myself and I have decided to begin the process of transition. This process will ultimately help match my body gender with my mind's gender. This process begins first with my own acceptance, the second stage which I have started is HRT. This is where I am taking Anti-testosterone drugs and Estradiol (estrogen), this HRT regimen will help my body develop more feminine characteristics, such as breast's, smoother skin and fat re-distribution (rounder face, hips etc..) but more importantly a better mental state. In time hair removal and SRS (Sexual Reassignment Surgery) would be considered.
No one knows what causes transsexuals, but the prevailing medical consensus is that at various points in a embyro's development, hormones cause the brain to develop a brain gender, either male or female and later as the babies body develops, hormones again cause the development of the male or female reproductive systems. These two developments occur during different periods in the babies growth. The theory is that if the mother is taking different medications, or drugs or have other issues these hormone levels may vary considerably causing the brain to develop as a female, but the body developing as a male, causing one to be transsexual. Since there is no way to correct the brain's gender, it has been found to be easier to alter the body to match the gender identity of the person. When these match the person finally becomes the person he or she was meant to be.
This is where I'm at, I know who I am and have started the process to match my body with that of my mind. Just to let you know my immediate family already knows about me. My hope and prayer, is that you, my friend, can accept me for who I am and not what society tells you I am. Society has many stereotype's about Transsexuals and I can say they are mostly wrong. I know this is a shock but all I ask is your continued friendship, understanding and support. I hope you can do this, as I value your friendship. As I will be transitioning, I will be taking a new name for myself, in time it will become my legal name. My chosen name is Kimberly or Kim for short. If you want to talk to me I will answer your questions to the best of my ability. I plan on transitioning at work, but have not informed co-workers of my transition plans yet. If you as a friend knows someone I work with please don't tell them, let me tell them in my time.
Sincerely your friend,
Kimberly aka Michael Kelly
I will see what the response is tomorrow.
Kimberly :battingeyelashes:
Dear Friends,
Recently, I told my brother a revelation, the funny thing is he revealed to me a revelation. He told me that God made me different from him, he said he knew I was distinctly unique from age 11. That would have made me about 9, My revelation which I have just come to understand in the last 10 months is that I am a transsexual, essentially a woman inside a male body. My brother told me that he knew from age 11, that I thought more like a girl than a boy, I disliked pretty much any activity that boys engaged in. As I grew older I realized that I was different but could not pinpoint or understand the reason. Many transsexuals realize at a very early age they are girls in a boy's body and deal with their situation early in their lives. For me, like other transsexuals, we go thru life not knowing what is different about us, we lead the life that others expect of us. We marry, have families, but as we grow older this person, this inner feminine person yearns to be her and to no longer live the persona we have lived all of our life's.
As I have come to accept myself, that I am a woman inside, a calm has come over me and I have been more at peace with myself than ever before. I am finally happy with myself. I realize that this is going to be a shock to some and a lot of information to absorb. I have accepted myself and I have decided to begin the process of transition. This process will ultimately help match my body gender with my mind's gender. This process begins first with my own acceptance, the second stage which I have started is HRT. This is where I am taking Anti-testosterone drugs and Estradiol (estrogen), this HRT regimen will help my body develop more feminine characteristics, such as breast's, smoother skin and fat re-distribution (rounder face, hips etc..) but more importantly a better mental state. In time hair removal and SRS (Sexual Reassignment Surgery) would be considered.
No one knows what causes transsexuals, but the prevailing medical consensus is that at various points in a embyro's development, hormones cause the brain to develop a brain gender, either male or female and later as the babies body develops, hormones again cause the development of the male or female reproductive systems. These two developments occur during different periods in the babies growth. The theory is that if the mother is taking different medications, or drugs or have other issues these hormone levels may vary considerably causing the brain to develop as a female, but the body developing as a male, causing one to be transsexual. Since there is no way to correct the brain's gender, it has been found to be easier to alter the body to match the gender identity of the person. When these match the person finally becomes the person he or she was meant to be.
This is where I'm at, I know who I am and have started the process to match my body with that of my mind. Just to let you know my immediate family already knows about me. My hope and prayer, is that you, my friend, can accept me for who I am and not what society tells you I am. Society has many stereotype's about Transsexuals and I can say they are mostly wrong. I know this is a shock but all I ask is your continued friendship, understanding and support. I hope you can do this, as I value your friendship. As I will be transitioning, I will be taking a new name for myself, in time it will become my legal name. My chosen name is Kimberly or Kim for short. If you want to talk to me I will answer your questions to the best of my ability. I plan on transitioning at work, but have not informed co-workers of my transition plans yet. If you as a friend knows someone I work with please don't tell them, let me tell them in my time.
Sincerely your friend,
Kimberly aka Michael Kelly
I will see what the response is tomorrow.
Kimberly :battingeyelashes: