Hey everyone, throughout my journey my quest for truth had serious side effects as well. To present oneself as appealing as possible to get acceptance, how ridiculous( well, when you are hungry for love, all things are possible ). I am slowly gaining strength to be truly coming out, not from the closet but fear of non-acceptance. Here is my 3 day old pic heading to trans-support group meeting, no wig, no makeup, no pose(well a little:) and lightning is a crap, but is as real as it gets. I hope you like what you see and at least is the truth.

I love your pic Alexia, you've made a very important point about true acceptance being self-acceptance   The greatest love of all is loving oneself (as a famous song goes ) Haha quoting a popular song , but I never knew that was what that song was about until very recently. It was confirmation of what I have always known as the truth, that truly loving oneself is necessary to truly love others, and that self-centredness or overloving oneself isn't love at all, it's a reaction to not accepting oneself.

I think you're cute, and you remind me of my *ahem mom
edit: I swear to you, that is meant as a heartfelt compliment, she is a beautiful woman, as are you.

Don't fret over a thing not being the truth, to quote my incredible Aunt regarding beauty:

"All that any of us will ever have are smoke and mirrors, but da** it, I'm going to use them!"