I first started realising I was transgender on the 15th of November 2017 and went public on the 31st of January 2018. Before this, I’d privately told my parents, and my fiancé knew from the start.
As someone with a big family, I didn’t want to go through the effort of telling each person individually, so one day during lunch at college I put a post on Facebook with a picture saying “Keep Calm I’m Trans” with a huge paragraph explaining that I had been ‘testing the waters’ for a few months behind closed doors, and the feeling I got was indescribable. I also put that I’d made a doctor’s appointment to get a referral to the GIC.