My name is Jane, I'm thirty years old and have been out of the closet for 3 and a half years. I've been on hormones for three of those years and even went on progesterone for six months a couple of years ago. When I came out I was dating a a person who later worked out they were transgender as well. My personality changed with hormones. Which meant that the things I was originally attracted to changed and I ended up ending that relationship.

I've feminised a lot in the last three years. I have an odd obsession with pink now as well. Most people began to refer to me as a princess. Perhaps I acted like one a bit at first and that's why. I'm now closer to non-binary than being a princess. I'm very punk rock and dress much more NB. Maybe that's just me being more comfortable with who I am now.

I had a violent and complicated childhood full of domestic abuse and neglect. I won't be going into detail about that.

I am currently in a platonic relationship. We were living together for a couple of years but things have become more complicated recently and we've switched to just dating. Watching the odd movie together and going on dates. Which works for me as I've been struggling with it since a domestic abuse situation with some family of mine a little over a month ago. Plus my partner was physically abusive to me on a couple of occasions.Which I know I should have left her then but I couldn't bring myself to do so.

I'm currently living with an old friend of mine. Someone I went to school with and then ended up going out with pretransition around 11-12 years ago. We've both come a long way since then. She has kids now and is doing a course in nursing and well I've found myself. In those years I worked a lot of business jobs, completed three diplomas and travelled a lot of the east coast of Australia. I tried new things, dated a lot of interesting (and semi-crazy) women and made a lot of friends.

Now I'm currently living with her and we make an awesome team. I help with her kids and we hang out and have a lot of fun. I'm more than likely going to go into share housing, get a job and start saving to get a three or four bedroom place with her. We both have partners that walk all over us and we both want to escape that. We've become best friends and take care of one another. We also have similar tastes and enjoy similar things. It's been really good for both of us to reconnect. Interestingly I've even found out more about her now than when I actually dated her. I suppose women pay attention to things. Men generally only think about themselves and only absorb the minimum of information about the women around them. Now I know so much about her and really only appreciate her so much more for it. It really makes you think how wonderful the female mind is, even the female transgender mind.

-Jane