Hello , My name is Michelle. That is not what my driver licence says,but since the age of 10 (i am 47 now)when a friend told me that his mum told him what his name would have been if he had been born a girl , the first thing i did that day when i got home is i asked my mother what my name would have been, she said Michelle.
Since then Michelle has been my own secret.
Growing up in the eighties about all i was exposed to was Klinger from MASH (if anyone remembers this was a television show about a army surgical hospital in Korea. Klinger would wear dresses around the base hoping to get a section 8, if he got a section 8 he would have been discharged as being crazy). Great for a young teenager i am totally crazy ,that is what society and television is telling me.
So i had to convince the world i was a boy, easy boys are naughty,that was easy to do,being the idiot of the school room not hard to do. Now 16 years old(1987) school was not an option any more. Started working doing very masculine jobs and always hating them. Now early 2015 Clinical depression set in. At the time i was not aware of how bad things were for me, lucky i decided to find a psychologist.
Now 4 years later i understand where i want to go.I completed a 6 month part time course in low level health care, i am hoping this will be a trans friendly work environment.
I live in Melbourne Australia where there is a very good medical and social community. I now have all the approval for HRT. I still work in the same job not for to much longer hopefully.
This is my first time posting, i do not know any one who is transgender i think starting here may be a good way to make connections.
Thank you to anyone who has taken time to read this, i look forward to reading and hopefully posting in some
of these forums.
Michelle.
