Hi all,
I guess it's time that I be polite and introduce myself instead of just lurking around reading the boards. I'm Cheryl Anne a MTF CD and have been a TG fulltime for 10 years.
My back story goes like this. First tried the on my moms clothes when I was a teen and was caught by my younger brother. I didn't do it again till during my second marriage I told my wife that I had, in my past before her, been with men. Shocked and amazed, she told me that I needed to explore that more (good thing for me, not so good for the marriage). Over the next year I found the CD inside of me and had never felt better about who I was. I kind of feel sorry for my wife at that time when she came home after work and for the first seen me in a dress. The shocked look of OMG.
Well we split apart for a while and during that time I became a truck driver. If you know anything about that crowd you know that anything different or out of the norm is not liked. So I learned to curb myself for a year on the road. I came off the road and my second wife and I reunited for about to more years. Then the bottom really dropped. It wasn't because of me being a CD. Just a lot of non communication.
Well, on the road again. Back to being a trucker. During that time I also found that being TG is not what you have on the outside but who you truly are on the inside. I might not have been able to dress, but I did learn that being true to yourself is most important thing of all.
Three years ago I found a VERY WONDERFUL Woman. I had learned thru reading other's stories and my own experience that keeping my TG side secret and telling them later is not a good thing. So with this wonderful woman I was upfront from the beginning. She has been very accepting of my female side. I can't believe my luck on finding her. I am still looking for her line and she has none as far as who I am. It took some time and a lot of girls saying I guess you really not my type but I did find her.
On our wedding day I had to wear a kilt. When asked why the kilt by my sister, I told her, because my wife wanted to wear the dress.
I'm off the road now pursuing a photography career as a wedding photographer. It's less stressful and hopefully more fun.
Cheryl Anne
