Script for my coming out video
Hi, I'm *girlname*. I live in Smalltown, USA* with my two pet rats. I enjoy singing karaoke, singing in the shower, reading, writing, playing on the computer and hanging out with family and friends. I love The Beatles and other music from the 60's and 70's. My favorite color is red. I am a daughter, a granddaughter, a sister, an aunt, a friend and a cousin. I love my family and my friends unconditionally. I am a singer, a reader, a writer and a rat mommy. I also happen to be a transgendered individual.
Hi, I'm Thomas. I live in Smalltown, USA* with my two pet rats. I enjoy singing karaoke, singing in the shower, reading, writing, playing on the computer and hanging out with family and friends. I love The Beatles and other music from the 60's and 70's. My favorite color is red. I am a son, a grandson, a brother, an uncle, a friend and a cousin. I love my family and my friends unconditionally. I am a singer, a reader, a writer and a rat daddy. I also happen to be a transgended individual.
I am the same person you always knew. I have the same memories, enjoy the same activities and I still love my family and friends unconditionally. Although my outward appearance may change a little, I am still the same person you have always loved. The only thing that is different about me is that you now know I'm transgendered. What is transgenderd, you might ask? It means that even though I was born a female and I look like a female on the outside, I feel like a man on the inside. I know that you may be thinking that being a lesbian should be enough of an expression of my inner masculinity, but this is something entirely different from being a lesbian. Lesbianism is a sexual preferance, whereas transgenderism is a gender identity. Lesbianism is considered a lifestyle, and sometimes even a choice. However transgenderism has a formal diagnosis used by psychologists and physicians, which is Gender Identity Disorder or GID. GID describes people who have what is called significant gender dysphoria (which is discontentment with the biological sex they were born with). It is a real psychiatric classification that describes the problems related to transexuality, transgender, and transvestism.
When I went into the hospital the last time, I got up the courage to tell my doctor there. She lined up a couple of counselors for me to talk to while I was in the hospital and I talked to them and all three of them said I seemed really comfident and they could tell from talking to me that I had been thinking about this for a long time, right down to the tiny little details that most people would never consider.
The day after I got out of the hospital, I had an appointment with my therapist and I told her about my transgender feelings. She still reminds me of how confident I was when I walked in there and came out as trans to her. She said it was the most confident that she had ever seen me.
This is something I've suffered silently with for years--mostly because I couldn't face what I was really feeling and I thought people would think I was so horrible and awful that nobody would love me or accept me or even be able to look at me the same as they did before. I had to come out to myself, first and foremost, and accept myself as a lovable and capable person. I went through similar pain before coming out as a lesbian, since I had to come to terms with it and learn to be okay with myself before I could come out.
Coming out as a lesbian, however, seems like an option when in comparison with coming out as transgendered. I was--and still am--very nervous about coming out and what people will think of me. If I want to start living my life full-time as a man, which I do, I have to come out to family and friends.
I don't just want to dress like a man, however, it goes far deeper than that, as you may have expected. I want to take testosterone shots so that I can
To Be Continued...* I changed out this information as to not be identifyable.