[size=4] Acceptance is the Key to Life [/size]
Mandy was born in 1982 about the mist of uncertainly, her gender was in question. The doctors assigned her as male and sent her home with two loving parents as Michael, a rambunctious yet withdrawn boy in San Diego California. After months of poking a prodding and a fateful trip to Los Angeles for testing life at home with her autistic sister at last was great. That was until Michael found out he was not like all the other boys in the world.
For years Michael wanted to be a girl, dress like mommy, cook and knit like her. As a boy Michael had a hard time, when he did not grow facial hair or have his voice drop it was not too much of a concern for a few years. Michael lived in the closet, unable to tell her parents the true feeling living inside. Mandy was never really Michael, she was always a girl trapped in a malfunctioning male body that was sterile and unfeeling.
Mandy was eight when she first learned she could be a girl someday, only five when she started wearing makeup and dressing in moms clothes. Through high school hormones given to her to make “him” more of a guy were rejected, the effects finally changing her voice at 17 years of age. It was not until college that Mandy found acceptance in herself and others followed.
In 2005 Michael began the journey to become Mandy, the person she has been her whole life. The journey to find her true self.