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...

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...