Greetings and salutations.
My name is Natalie and I’m trans. The first thing I did with my first credit card after high school was buy a SG membership in 2003. I’ve been a member off and on (mostly on!) since then. After a very long/dark period of my life I was finally able to confront my feelings around my own gender and started to transition in 2020. My 16 year long cishet relationship collapsed not long afterward and I had to quit my job and find a new one when I started to socially transition. In those two years I went from just trying to make it to the end of the day without killing myself to being emotionally devastated to wondering how I’ll be able to support myself to will anyone every love and my trans body. I wouldn’t change anything tho. I’m so in love with life now and I can actually look in the mirror or have my picture taken without the feeling of being stabbed in the heart. Last year I started seeing trans hopefuls on here and it made me heart skip a beat or two. In my close to 2 decades as a member here I don’t think I ever posted a single thing or interacted with the community here, but I think that’s going to change. After 25 years of HATING my body, even when I was a thin super athletic mountain bike racer, I’m ready to start celebrating it.
