Transgender Stories

Transgender stories to provide inspiration to the transgender community. There is nothing more powerful than knowing you’re not alone in the day to day challenges.

We’d love to be able to share your transgender stories, journeys, and images of your lives with the community, anonymously if you’d prefer.

To share your story and or pictures with the rest of our community, please contact us by clicking below.

Share My Transgender Story

As lead counsellor with GGP you might expect to hear that I have been managing my journey to HRT through our services. Well, you would be wrong. I took the decision, three years ago, to follow the NHS pathway to treatment. Here I wanted to share my experiences with you in the hope that you will see you are not alone.

Marianne tells her transgender story here

Marianne Oakes

Lead Counsellor , GenderGP

We’ve all seen it in the movies, when an epiphany strikes.

The camera zooms into the shocked, frozen face with a dramatic orchestral crescendo. Well, when my one and only epiphany struck me just eight weeks ago today. There were no cameras, and the only music playing was “You’ll be back” from Hamilton.

Read Sarah’s transgender transformation story here

Sarah T

Henrietta wanted to share pictures of herself during her transition.

You can Henrietta’s transgender transformation before and after photos here

Henrietta K

I cannot imagine ever wearing the smallest item of male clothing or presenting any way as male. I can hardly even recall living as a man all those years. It’s as if my old self is someone I knew about but have never met.

Read Vicky-Marie’s full transgender story here

Vicky-Marie Hogan

I have vague dreams of another life, a very different, less happy, less content and incomplete life.

Then I realise those are not my dreams but memories of my past.

Pam shares her wonderful transgender transformation story here

Pam

Joanna has created this wonderful video for you to watch about her transition.

Watch her transgender transformation video here

Joanna Parker

Coming Out to My Mother. Being trans in a family dealing with cancer.

Read Diane’s transgender transformation story here

Diane

As a parent we’re supposed to love and support our children. It’s our instinct to go all “Tiger mum” and use our voices to “ROAR” away anything that hurts them, anything that causes them emotional or physical pain.

Read Kitty’s transgender story here

Kitty

It was a sunny day. I turned the left rear corner of a white wooden garage and pushed between bushes on my right and the garage wall. Reaching the front corner, I saw a small backyard lawn and the rear of an arrow-flight house. Immediately in front of me were two wooden lawn chairs, as white as the garage, with vertical and oblique slats in a fan-pattern for backs.

Read Ian’s story here

Ian Elliott

Laura reached out to us with this uplifting story of personal change. Fitness can be a hard space for trans and non-binary people to break into – there are fears of judgment as well as physical insecurity – but with her personal trainer, Kelly, she overcame these barriers and achieved her goals.

Read Laura’s Transgender Transformation story

Laura

I have been in contact with your service over the last two years and in truth your supporting me and prescribing hormones has probably saved my life.

Read Charlotte’s transgender transformation story here

Charlotte

I got into bed for the first night on my new journey. I could just feel the patch on my right thigh and, as I drifted off into a deep sleep, I wondered what life would be like in the coming years. What seemed like only moments later I suddenly woke up.

Read Sammi’s transgender story here

Sammi

I am a regular reader and receiver of your monthly emailed updates.

I also have on many occasions emailed the gender gp for advice and have had a good response to my communications.

The reality is that putting yourself through all the medical processes and making all the personal changes in the world doesn’t guarantee that you will ever fully become the person you had envisaged. But what does happen is a gradual coalescing of all the changes, both mental and physical. The old you merging into a new you with whom you feel at one and at peace.

Read Hannah’s transgender story here

Hannah Stevie Massie

Stephanie wanted to share before and after pictures of her transition.

You can view her transition before and after pictures here

Stephanie G

It is good to read positive stories about people who have transitioned and now live 24/7 in their true gender. For those of us who are in the midst of transitioning, however, and are still spinning plates, this concept feels some way off. I fall into that ‘category’ so I wanted to share some of my experiences, in the hope that they might resonate with others in my position.

Stella tells transgender her story here

Stella

What a difference a year makes. Four stone lighter and feeling great. I have been on hormones for six months now and I am off to Thailand for some top half surgery next month. Then hopefully March next year back over for my full srs change. I have never been happier and my wife and family have been fantastic. All my friends have had no problems with my change and life is good.

See Ann’s before and after transition pictures here

Ann Quance

My name is Leo Telford and I’m a 16 year old trans guy. I recently featured on the GenderGP podcast as part of the Trans Youth Special which is all about young trans people and our experiences in life.

Leo tells his transgender transformation story here

Leo Telford

I was born in 1952, when food rationing was still in existence. I lived with my parents, together with my older sister in an old, cold, four-roomed cottage, deep in the English countryside.

Read Steph’s story here

Steph

As it has been over a year since I realised my gender identity as a woman, it seemed appropriate to look back on my transition and recall the steps I have taken on the road to becoming the person I kept locked away within myself for a very long time.

Read Lucie’s transgender transformation story here

Lucie Fish

Sasha wanted to share pictures of herself through her transition.

You can Sasha Jones transgender transformation before and after pics here

Sasha Jones

The unhappy, frustrated, angry, dysfunctional person seems to have gone. Its like the fog has lifted and I am seeing and thinking so much more clearly. I am really feeling like I am becoming the woman I should have always been. For the very first time in my life I am liking myself. After years of self hatred I like what I see when I look in the mirror and more importantly perhaps I am liking the person that I am.

Read Sasha’s full transgender transformation story here

Sasha Phear

In a recent Instagram post, poet @reecelyons_ revealed that, since it was published by the i-newspaper, her performance at the Roundhouse has been shared more than 1.5 million times.

We think its brilliant, so we asked her if we could share her story with our community – she said yes.

You can Reece’s transgender transformation video here

Reece Lyons

Saoirse wanted to share before and after pictures of her transition.

You can view her before and after transition pictures here

Saoirse

As a small child, I never felt that I had to conform to gender stereotypes. No one ever had anything to say about what I chose to wear or how I wanted to spend my time, they just let me be myself.

Read Beau’s transgender story here

Beau