Tue May 10, 2011 at 10:36 AM PDT
My Story (of the trans variety)
by MercuryX23
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/10/974792/-My-Story-%28of-the-trans-variety%29 (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/10/974792/-My-Story-%28of-the-trans-variety%29)
I think I knew I was not like my brothers very early on. Even as a 5 year old, I knew that wearing mommy's clothing was something I would have to hide rather than face the ridicule of my brothers. Most of my youth was spent overcompensating for my "wrong" feeling, being as much a boy as possible because if they knew I was a girl, I would get it even worse than I did.
So I hid myself and when my parents split and my mother moved me across the country from California to New Jersey, I was free for a time and I was me for a time. She and my step-father would work weekends and that would be my time to play with her clothes and make-up and be the girl I secretly wished myself to be.