The Transgender Storm Inside

My primary goal writing on MEDIUM has been to verbalize what I am personally going through because I am transgender and wanted to share with others this incredibly unique journey. Either you are a fellow traveler who needs to know you are not alone or you are just interested in understanding the trip. I have linked a number of my writings below to spare you too much redundancy.

I am suffering from an incongruence between my gender, how my brain is wired, and my sex, how I was physically born.

I never truly understood mental anguish until it hit me three years ago with my discovery that I was transgender. I am frustrated with trying to find a way to convey this incredible pain that gender dysphoria has inflicted on me to anyone else. I want others to realize that this is not made up nor can it be dismissed as a mental illness. It is very physical, very powerful and it is very real. Gender dysphoria is a blaring alarm that something is seriously wrong.

I know with absolute certainty that I am suffering from gender dysphoria. So does every medical professional that has diagnosed me over the last three years.

It’s just the rest of the world that just refuses to accept that it is real.

For those trying to understand, think of battling day and night, the pain, the exhaustion, the endless turmoil…