Hitting 30 has been incredible tbh. I'm just in such a completely different place than 1 year ago and I'm so so happy!

I have a job again and a flat again and a girlfriend and I'm so happy! The joy of finally starting hrt after wanting it since I was 12 is something I think maybe even a lot of other transgender people can't understand, it's been over a year now and finally seeing my body begin to look the way that I have always seen it myself is... life saving.

Working full time is hard! But now I'm beginning to settle in it is so exciting and I have so much purpose and so many people in my life who I can meet and network with and who rely on me and who talk to me. Having my own home again is the biggest thing ever. At first it felt so so indulgent having a place of my own ^^' but now I've got over that it's just wonderful. I get to decorate it and live in it. It's really an extension of myself. And getting to share the space with my girlfriend is like a heaven I've never even dreamed of. True heaven. Retransitioning, after having been forced to detransition for years, is like finally breathing again.

and it's different this time. I got a birthday card from my parents addressed to my real name. It is everything to me in a way which still does not quite feel real. It's all I've wanted since I was so young and I had given up hope that they would ever come around to this. It's everything. It means everything is different now. I get to be me forever now.

Amy is just the most perfect girlfriend I could ever imagine. She loves me like I've always wanted to be loved. She lets me love her like I've always wanted to love someone. She takes care of me, she lets me be myself and I could talk to her for hours. She's my best friend. I feel like I've been praying for someone like her my whole life and now she is here and she is real and I am hers.