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To family, friends and loved ones,

What I'm about to tell you is not an easy thing to do, and has caused a lot of emotional stress for me lately.

Everyone has always known me as a boy, a young man or strapping young lad. But in all reality I have always been different under my projected male self for many years now. From as young as I can remember I sensed something inside of me that I could never really figure out. I have always had this deep feeling that there was something wrong with me and that if I expressed it I would get in serious trouble, or be rejected by family. Now I have realized nothing can change the way I am and I'm actually more happy now being the whole me that I have feared being for so many years.

What I'm saying is that I am Transgendered.

I know some of you will have a hard time believing this, but let me explain a bit before any misunderstandings arise. I have always hidden the fact that I have a strong feminine side, and I have always hidden it in fear. But I'm no longer afraid of being who I am. Being Transgendered means that for years I have felt as if something inside me has not matched my body. I grew up and learned how to become a boy, yet there was more to me than just that. I know it's hard to understand because I seemed like a "normal" boy. But that is what I was raised to be, and although that is my physical nature, inside I was screaming for help. I did not know who I was. I was a shell raised to be a young man and deep down I wanted to be a woman. I no longer can live with that shell and I have to let it out and tell the world, because I'm happy being me and I'm tired of living a lie. I also can not stand that other people I know have to lie about it for me to cover up in fear of rejection.

So here I am world. I am Transgendered.

To all my family and friends, I dearly love all of you and I don't want this to change how you see me. I simply want to be able to express myself freely from now on without the fear and lies. I have the same values and personality you have always known, now just with something more not everyone has known about.

If anyone has any questions about it at all, please feel free to talk to me about it.

I love you all
Kyle
(a.k.a. Kyra)

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