Hi, this page (or possibly pages) will tell you something about myself.  How should I begin?

How about 'In the beginning', no seriously, I was born in a large city on the East Coast shortly after the end of WWII.  My mother told me later that when my Grandmother first saw me she said that I was too pretty to be a boy.  Maybe she saw something that nobody else did.  The doctors obviously made a mistake.  They saw a piece of unwanted plumbing and assumed that I was a boy.  Little did they know that my mind would tell me that they were wrong

I really don't remember much of my early years.  I mean, I remember bits and pieces, but no continuous memories.  Between my fiftth and tenth birthdays I can remember playing with my girl cousins more than my boy cousins.  At the age of ten, I began to feel that something was different.  I really could not connect with boys in my neighborhood.  I mean we were friendly and played together, but I never really became good friends with them.  I couldn't understand why.  I always felt different.  I seemed to connect more with the girls, but as a young boy I felt that being seen with girls was not right.

It was the Eisenhower years.  Men were men, and women were back in the kitchen.  At least some women were.  My mother worked and I became what we call today 'a latch key kid.'  I would come home from school and be by myself until about 5PM.  I remember that between my 9th and 10th birthdays, I tried on my first piece of womans clothing.  Nothing much, just a skirt my mother had.  I stood on the bed and looked at myself in the mirror, we didn't have a full length mirror.  I thought I looked pretty good.  Within a few days I had tried on more and more.  I felt that these are the clothes I should be wearing, not my old boy clothes.

TO BE CONTINUED.