Hi 6_yearold
The first step in the right direction is to see a therapist, which it appears you have already done. Most everything else you have described here in this post is pretty well what most of us feel and have experienced universally at one point or another. I have dreamt about being a girl starting especially at around the age of six. But there were many times before the age of six, around between 3 and 5 I remember my mom dressing me in girls clothes, back in those days it was not an unusual thing for moms to dress their boy as a girl during the preschool years.
I also remember quite vividly playing dress up my sister and my friend Christine, the next door neighbor. of course dress up was dressing up as a girl. I especially was beside myself when Christine invited some of the other neighborhood girls to join us in a tea party. The next door neighbor. But after the age of seven I was discouraged from playing these girl games
When I was older 11 years old I ran with this girl whom turned out to be an outcast at school like I was. And yes I played being a girl with my friend, I had long hair to my Butt and I passed quite well as a girl. The Hippie era was in full swing back the and I took to wearing unisex clothes. Most people thought I was a girl. After the age of thirty I married and had three kids but that was a total disaster and off I went to explore the world and began to drink heavy and didn't take a sober breath for nearly thirty years. No sooner did I put the cork back on the bottle Mrs. GID reared her head again and off to the races I went still in the dark as to why I was getting these intense urges of wanting to be a girl.
I did not learn what the word Transsexual was 1998 and didn't really do anything about it until 2000 by 2001 I was presenting full time and 4 years ago I had the surgery. This is as close as one can get to being a woman, from here on it is all psychological growth, understanding yourself, stable relationship, understanding yourself, understanding your gift, and learning that you are now an independent woman in pursuit of a more stable life as a woman out there in the world.
Cindy