Boobs, Makeup & Female Insecurities

Fantasies, mirrors and personal happiness

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When I was first diagnosed as transgender, I was desperate to prove to myself I wasn’t. When I couldn’t prove it intellectually because there was just so much lifetime proof that my real gender was female, I tried to attack myself by my physical looks. Whenever I put on makeup or female clothes, in those early years, I would mock the…