Hi baby! No one believed me and look at me now! I wish I could give you some of my peace of mind and you could relax. I was forced by family religious beliefs and economics to assimilate as a male for forty years. So you can do it for quite a few if you have to. When you are a legal adult and have your own income go for it. You cannot let them take away who you are inside. Even when I was getting slammed hard every day by family forcing my compliance with what they consider "normal" I never let myself die inside. I knew who I was and protected myself from the continual onslaught of conservative ideology and bigotry. There will come a day, you will know when that is, when you can show on the outside what you feel on the inside. To me in a way the things I had to endure actually made me stronger in the end. A large part of passing is confidence in yourself and the trials I endured gave me tons of confidence that I could overcome anything. You will make it baby, just never give up. Do what you have to do to survive and then when you can, become the real you. It might take a while, but you can do it. 🙂 PM me anytime if you need to talk in private.
