I finally plucked up the courage to come out as trans to my partner. It wasn't really planned, but my daughter went out to a party, and will be staying out overnight, and so it seemed a good time, with no-one else here.

I told him I had this secret, I told him how long I'd been hiding it, and why I'd kept it secret for so long, and then I just told him everything.

He took it AMAZINGLY well.

One thing he said was that he's not surprised, and picked out a few...

In the run up to this new year I've found myself making several new resolutions, and I'm approaching this year with much more of a sense of excitement (and trepidation) than previous years.

The main thing of course, is that I have to come out to my partner about the whole gender thing, and I have to do it soon (because I NEED him to come to the local trans meeting at the end of February) but I still have no idea how to do it or how to cope with the fallout.

But then I'm...

I've been having some fun with my new alt, and discovering a very nice place for taking atmospheric photos - Chakryn Forest. I think I've taken what's probably my best snapshot to date (the last one below)

Many people I know online, know that I am transgendered in RL. It's not the same story in my offline life, I am basically not out to ANYONE, except people in the trans support group I go to, who know why I am there and are all transgendered themselves.

I live as masculine a life as I can manage, but I've not yet begun any sort of treatment, and I still go by my legal, female name. But as time goes by it gets harder to keep the secret and the desire to actually go for treatment has...

You know, normally I'm an optimist. I'm the guy that believes that every cloud has a silver lining somewhere, even if you have to hunt for it. But this whole thing about being banned is just something I can't see any silver lining in at all.

I've done some googling, and reading up about what other people have done when they've been banned, even when it was through no fault of their own, and it seems that it's almost unheard-of for Linden Lab to reinstate a banned account.
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