About me

But you’re here, so in the spirit of proper introductions, here’s the mandatory About Me stuff.

My name is Teresa, and I’m a transgender woman in my late 40s who loves music, movies, spending time with my wife, and slowly discovering who I really am as a woman after spending a lifetime pretending to be a man.

I’ve come out to my wife, a friend, and therapists, but I haven’t come out to the world at large. Which is why this blog, for now at least, is still anonymous and littered with stock images of cisgender women who are infinitely more beautiful than I will ever be.

My journey as a transgender woman has just begun, and I hope this blog and its vulnerable honesty will help me make sense of it all. I hope that it helps me, but my bigger hope is that it helps others, especially those of you who identify as people of color and who have already realized, or are in the process of realizing, that you too were born in the wrong body.

My posts will offer some reflections on my journey, and should be taken as little more than anecdotal takes on one woman’s journeys that may or may not have relevance to your own. My posts are most definitely not pearls of wisdom, nor instruction manuals on how your journey should unfold. We are all different people, and what worked for me may not work for you, and vice versa.

I hope that you simply find some enjoyment in my writing, and maybe a sense of camaraderie and an intuitive understanding that you are not alone. Because even though our journeys are different, we share a lot of the same uncertainties, a lot of the same anxieties, and certainly a lot of the societal roadblocks that have led women like us to believe there’s something inherently wrong with us.