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 I started my blog 13 years ago today and I dare say if it was a real teenager it would be on puberty blockers. Or wouldn't if you live in the wrong part of the world.

I guess that's the big difference between 2011 and now. We were progressing well towards better transgender rights and now we're going backwards. I now live in a different country from where I lived then, and heightened transphobia and general xenophobia in the UK were a major reason for moving. What's not changed, though, is my gender identity. I remain trans, despite all the well-meaning advice from the transphobes that I needn't be if only I tried a little harder.

I continue to write this blog. The first three years were descriptions of my trips out as a woman. Then I got a disfiguring illness, couldn't wear makeup and limped along for the next three years. I was able to enjoy a bit of a comeback in 2018 but then went abroad, supposedly temporarily but ended up remaining. My blog is now more into finding positives in a world that is much less agreeable than when I started blogging. 

 

Let me show you nice things

On a practical level, I have been labelling posts over the last four years to make finding topics easier. I'm going back over older posts to do the same for those but it's a slow process.

Thanks for reading, and for all your comments. 

Sue x