What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

I'm enjoying my years, I'm enjoying my life, I'm enjoying my family. I'm just happy - a happy person.

I feel really good, I feel like a man now, and I'm really happy.

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.