It's National Coming Out Day, I am a trans man & I've identified as queer for about 35 years. I do wish it no longer seemed as important and potentially risky to be out as it did back then, but here we are.
I wrote an essay 6 yrs ago that still holds - daniellaurison.com/n...
![Image of the headline ("national coming out day") and first 2 paragraphs or so of the blog post I wrote in 2020.
It’s National Coming Out day. I’m a transgender man. If any of you didn’t know that, and want to ask me questions, you can. I came out as a dyke (fn1) at 15, started identifying as some kind of butch or genderqueer person in my 20s, hung out with mostly other queers and lesbians until grad school, and decided to transition physically & socially in 2005. Since then I’ve tried to be out as much as possible, but my gender history doesn’t tend to come up in casual conversation, so I need to make more of an effort than I did when I was a visibly queer female-bodied person with romantic partners who were women.
Unlike many trans people, I don’t believe that I’m truly or essentially “a man,” I just figured out that I feel way more comfortable in my body & in the world having transitioned. [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eivlsge4ug4jtvzsdftby3my/bafkreibyciu5khmesurqq4dwnxzeanr26h6dbczosphve323zqeeze3ezu)
