RachylSummers

They say that being born is extremely painful and traumatizing, and that’s why you never remember being born, well when you come out to yourself and to your friends and family it can be just as painful, if not more so. So, it was a while before I told anyone of what I found, not because I was fearing a backlash or any terrible suffering, but because I was so very curious. You see, I had lived a life that was very sheltered in one sense. I didn’t know much about sex or gender, as it wasn’t something that I would have asked anyone about, at least that I could remember in my life. Up until 1998, I had never knowingly met a gay

[Editor’s note: This is a series following Rachael’s transition from an A.M.A.B (Assigned Male at Birth) individual to that of a self-identified trans woman.] I heard a noise in my head that sounded like a gigantic lock clicking open. It was like the earth shifted and my eyes finally saw in color. The understanding that I had been looking for all my life came like a flash of incredible peace and certainty. I knew, finally who I was. At least I was surer than I had ever been in my entire life. I wasn’t an anomaly, something to be looked down in distaste. I wasn’t a freak, someone who should have been aborted. I wasn&#8