This page will contain information about my life and about living as a woman.
I started living as a woman full time about two years ago in 1998. Coming out to friends and family was a little scary. After the initial embarrassment there wasn’t really a problem. In May this year I was forty and so I had a big family get together in the local pub. My nearest relative is my brother as my mother died of cancer in eighty-one and my father died of a heart attack in eighty-eight. There were twelve of us that came together for a pub meal, my brother with his wife and four children, my aunt and Uncle, as well as my cousin. Audry , another auntie also came.. Joyce Brown was the first to arrive, she was my housemother when I was seven years old and she looked after me for four years at a special school in London.
I was so nervous that day. It was quiet a formal gathering. But it all went well. They all came back for coffee accept for Joyce brown who met a friend on the way to my flat and so she stopped and chatted to her and decided to go home.
Another occasion when I was anxious about telling people was when I was involved in a project called the Drake Music Project. The project is for people with disabilities to make music with the aid of technology. Going there for the first time as a woman, was a nerve racking experience but most of the people were supportive and now I just get on with what ever I am doing.
Every year I go on a Share Music Course as a helper for the technology side of things. Share Music holds six courses up and down the UK every summer, lasting a week. The week ends with a performance. I have been going as Lyn, for two years now.
I’m now involved in another exciting music project, called the Franky Miller Project. Franky Miller was a famous pop star in the seventies. Owing to a stroke about four years ago, he was not about to play conventionally and so a guy called Jowels Holand told him about Drake. From there The Franky Miller Project started. The project is a yearlong project involving four disabled people. The aim of the project is to produce a professional CD.
One of my other interests is surfing the internet. The fact that I am disabled doesn’t hamper me when I am on the internet. People can not pre-judge me because they can not see me. The net is a liberating experience. It can be what you want it to be. You can shop, chat, download stuff and get a wealth of information, all from your PC. There are thousands of transgendered web-sites on the net, admitaty there are few sites like this one but I am sure in time there will be more.
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