I'm Transgender. (Patreon)

Hey everyone,
as the title may already suggest to you, I feel it's time to let you all know about my situation. I've already talked to some of you that share my gender diversity on Discord, but since I just started HRT, I feel like it's time to share my story with all of you.

So.. yeah.. surprise surprise, somebody making games about being trans is trans herself. Shocker. While I guess this isn't much of a surprise to some of you, that was a whole different story for my family, so it has been tremendously difficult to come out to my wife, my mother, and my sister. For some reason it was way easier to tell my friends about it, mostly because they are all video game developers and so leftist that I would have been surprised by any backlash. My mother had the most problems with it. She was pretty passive-aggressive since I told her, trying to convince herself that the psychotherapy would cure me of this phase or something. But... since I told her that that would actually be illegal, she has realized that this is not going away and was able to move on eventually. My wife has been so so supportive and it was the best thing ever when she told me that she had no doubts about wanting to be with me after my transitioning. I'm so thankful for her and will have to lean on her a lot over the next years.

Anways... my new name is Kim and I use she/her pronouns.
My early transitioning has already been a tremendously eventful time and if you want to know more, you can follow my new profile on Twitter to read all about my struggles, hopes and transition events. For example last weekend I traveled internationally as myself for the first time and was surprised how welcome everybody in London was. Sitting in a pub with my wife and being called "Ladies" was the best feeling ever and gave me so much confidence and hope for the future, that I can't believe the UK is considered a rather difficult place for trans people to be right now. It was really really great.

As I said, I just started HRT yesterday and I don't think it will have much of an effect for a while, but it might, so if I become a little agitated over the next year please remember that the first year of HRT is supposed to be like a second puberty. I'm sorry in advance. I was a little on the edge all morning and I don't think it had anything to do with that but it made me feel like I needed to write this text to let you all know in advance.

So... anyways... this is it for today. Again, if you want to know more just ask me or follow me on Twitter. :)

Best,
Kim

PS: The progress report for v0.6.3 will be out some time next week.