✨ Today marks one year since I made the decision to be a little more honest to myself; today marks one year since I started hormone replacement therapy and accepted myself as a #transgender woman, and began living as such. What this means is that I am a woman despite being assigned male at birth, I take estrogen and testosterone blockers, I use she/her/hers as my pronouns, I use the women’s bathroom, and my name is still Kerry. It’s been a tough and arduous effort thus far - my thresholds have been tested, I’ve broken down numerous times, and many days I lacked a drive to get out of bed. But despite all of this, I know I’m living a life that’s more mine now than it ever was; I am living my life rather than enduring it. Friends - I’ve been more distant or just haven’t been keeping in touch, please understand that the weight of discovering who I am when I finally give myself the right to, being fresh out of school, and adjusting to a new job in a new city has been tough. I’ve felt more anxiety, dysphoria, and emotional-lows than I’m used to through all of this, and as a result I’ve sorta closed myself off. I’m also paralyzingly terrified of coming out to friends and trying to have conversation about it when I don’t know a lot of what to say. So I’m sorry, but I’m working on it. New friends in Portland - I swear, I’m usually so much more fun than I’ve been this past year or so. I don’t like to admit it, but I’m scared as hell of being judged, and ultimately, to open up myself when I haven’t really figured it all out. I’m trying to be more involved, I swear. And if after all this you still wanna be friends/family - awesome, thank you, I love you. If not, that’s chill - just don’t be destructive about it, and disconnect 💖 Um I’m not sure how to end this but, uhhhhhhhh HAPPY #TRANSIVERSARY TO ME YAY #TransisBeautiful #GirlsLikeUs