Today is an important anniversary for me - here is a fairly long, but horribly honest piece about why.
A lot of people didn't feel they could support me in this, in some cases pushing me to go against the decision I had made - they have been surgically excised from my life.
Many others have given me their full support - to those people, thank you from the bottom of my heart, you will never know what it means to have you accept me as I am now, rather than as I was then.

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