Transgender…the Lonely Path

Sadly many transgender women or men are involved in a seriously lonely journey to live as our authentic gender selves. Along the way a few of us are fortunate and found someone to help us in our transition. I remember vividly thinking I couldn’t wait until a cis woman helped me with my clothes and makeup. In my novice mind, helping me to jump start my path to presenting as a realistic woman. What actually happened was she really didn’t have much more skill with makeup than I did and I already had most of the clothes I needed so she wasn’t really such a big help after all. Plus later on, she tried to hold…