I'm glad you're sticking around and happy you're happy. Keep on keeping on!

So glad you’re able to be your authentic you. Puts me in mind of my oldest son who came out to his mom and me about 25 years ago. He was really scared. He looked like a deer in the headlights. Since that time our love for him has multiplied. You will have nothing less than acceptance and encouragement from this quarter. Best wishes June.

Congrats!

Congratulations, June, on being able to be your true self. My son, now daughter, came out to me as transgender two years ago. It was a shock, initially, but I'm glad to see her happy and supported her decision.

A big element of this change is how bloody emotional I'm getting. Walls that held this back all my life are coming down. Once I start HRT (asap) I've been told my emotions will go through the roof, just in time for the Jays to push them to nutty levels this year one way or the other I suspect (yes, I'm going to try to mix in baseball content all the time, just who I am).

June, happiness is one of the most important thing in life. No point in suffering unnecessarily.

You have to try to be happy in life. Glad to hear that you are happy with your decision and you have a supportive family.

Congrats June. Big step. Especially happy your family is supportive, because not much is more important than that.

How wonderful - that you have felt able to make this momentous decision, that your previous steps have gone so well, and that you could sense that your BB community would embrace your courage and authenticity.

You have made a major contribution to this happy band of BJ warriors; allow us to return the favour.

Congrats, June, and I wish you the best on your journey.

I play in a softball league here in Boston, and one of the teams is entirely made up of transgender people, and they are easily among the bravest people I know.

Wishing you all the best in your journey towards your true self, June.

Congratulations June on the heroic choice!

Congrats, June! Courageous of you. I agree with the very positive and supportive comments in this thread.

Welcome June, nice to have you.

Congrats June!

Congratulations June! My late wife and I took in Christopher, the child of a friend, in 2015. Chris started HRT during the pandemic and is now Quinn, and has found a community of trans people to support her. I truly hope you find the same support and acceptance she did.

Very happy for you, June!

Happy for you June.  All the best. 

For those of you who are curious - I am now living 100% as a woman everywhere. My nerves were a bit on edge going to stores today and needing to change my contact information at the vets, but it all went as smoothly as if I was just changing my credit card number. I love millennials and post-millennial people - they are instantly accepting it seems (all of my daughters friends are giving me congrats right away). Still at 100% acceptance from family/friends/etc. with only a few that I care about left to respond (they aren't online as much as some of us are - yeah I'm online waaaay too much). My daughter just did my nails, and set me up with a new facial routine for the mornings. Lots more work for skin care as a woman. I'm knee deep and it is just going to get deeper, luckily I love to swim.

Living the life you are meant to live is wonderful. I encourage everyone to live whatever their truth is.

Congratulations on taking that big (scary) step. Wishing you all the best in your new/true life, June.

I always thought I was really lucky when I moved out on my own at 17. Discovered that the rooming house where I rented was home to a pretty full LGBTQ+ spectrum, though in the 1960s, those terms didn't really exist, at least to me.

I had a great time while living there: a lot of gay men, a trans woman, the odd sex worker. I was fortunate to have my eyes opened, and instantly learned to accept, and enjoy hanging with everyone there.

Glad you seem to be around a lot of supportive people.

Thanks for your courage June, and including us, your baseball community, in this. As a parent of an adult trans daughter, may you get all the support you need. You’re a valued member of BB, and we continue to look forward to your perspective on baseball and life.

Thank you BlueMonday for being there for your daughter, and to mathesond for being their for your friends daughter. I've heard horror stories and seen good parents with their kids both. I lived in fear that coming out my parents wouldn't be supportive (my dad was born in the 30's, my mom during WWII so they had very old fashioned viewed on stuff - although my dad did have a gay roommate in the 60's so who knows?) They are both gone now, which was part of my push to come out.

Bottom line - every child deserves to have a parent in their corner. Ideally both parents. So I'm feeling really happy right now knowing those kids have that - FYI: anyone born after 1990 is a kid to me, heck I still struggle with the fact my baby sister is nearly 50 at times.

Also to everyone here - your love and support mean the world. Two of my daughters read this page and were very happy to see all the support I'm getting. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Congratulations, June!

Very happy to hear the news and to learn how supportive your daughters, sisters and friends have been.

It is quite hard growing up at a time when there were almost no positive representation of trans people in media and the internet didn't exist to help facilitate a connection with the trans community (either online or in person). It's great that you were able to find a therapist to help process your feelings and final fears.

I've long cherished Batter's Box as one of those relic corners of the internet. It seems the message boards and forums that evolved out of the alt.newsgroup style communication have largely been replaced by blogs (and then those were replaced by social media - and then THOSE were replaced by TikTok video blogs) but there are still a few places like this that remain "where everybody knows your name".

The staying power that a site like this has is in its ability to connect a user's posts from one topic to another. The Twitter-verse sort of has a "everyone's anonymous all the time". Here, you can become a little more familiar with one another. I remember the support this community rallied for J. Northey in 2014 as a really touching instance of where internet friends proved to be every bit as real as IRL friends.

And so now we welcome June as a bauxite. Glad you've experienced overwhelming positivity.

Congratulations! Increased happiness is a good thing. Long may it continue.

Congratulations! A bold decision that I hope leads to much happiness. Very happy about the strong support from family and friends. Hope your contributions to this site remains prolific.

So happy for you June! Just curious, are you able to share your pronouns so we can ensure we get them right? I don't want to make any assumptions.

Excellent point JB21 - how to tell I'm a rookie at this still. I'm going by She/Her from now on. Wow, feels so amazingly good to type that. Also still 100% positive responses from family/friends. A few I was expecting to be negative have actually been positive so I'm still on cloud 9 at this point, partially wondering why I didn't do this years ago, even though I know why (fear). Was out buying a pair of runners so I won't be in 'guy shoes' anymore (softer colours). I shocked myself by how much I now want to get my ears pierced (doing it tomorrow) when I always thought it was a silly thing people did, but now the idea of having cute earrings is massively appealing. So strange how the instant I let go and came out all of this stuff started flowing in me. Strangely I'm dressing a lot like my wife did (black pants, cute tops) so far. Her old winter coat (couldn't donate it after she died) actually fits me, thankfully (saves me a bit). A whole new world of possibilities is there for me now, and I'm planning to experience it and live it from now on. A bit scared of when my daughter takes me out to the local gay bar though (yes, I am still attracted to women only)...

Also a big thank you for how you all stepped up for me in 2014 when my wife passed away after giving birth to my youngest. That was a nightmare time and this site was a plus for me. Obviously it still is. Everyone here has always been fantastic, even when we argue. I suspect we all know baseball is a fun thing that joins us together, much like it did for many of us with our parents. Last year was hard with my Dad passing away (my Mom died in 2022). My 20 year old daughter got us World Series tickets using part of the money she got from the hospital settlement over my wife's death as I never got to go to the playoffs with my Dad and she didn't want to have that same regret. Anyone here with kids - remember, the special times are massive to them, make them happen however you need to.

Thanks June!

So glad to hear how positive your family/community has been so far.

Belated congrats

June, I appreciate you feeling comfortable sharing this news with us. You’re a huge part of making this site go. We support you!

Longtime lurker, infrequent poster. Congratulations June, you've been through a lot. Glad you've found your true self and will continue to look forward to your always insightful posts.

I just want to say 'thank you' again to everyone. Looking here and seeing more positive comments from so many, including many lurkers, means a LOT. I'm fighting a lot of of gender dysphoria (basically, not seeing myself as I want to be) so seeing support helps a ton. The hormone replacement therapy will start soon, but can't start soon enough for me. Yeah, I'm going to lose muscle and might even lose an inch or two of height, but I honestly can't wait to see what I look like after a few months. There is nothing that puts one on a high like being themselves after decades of hiding. I feel so incredibly lucky to have so many in my corner right now.

Welcome, June. I wish you nothing but happiness.

Congratulations, June. I'm glad you trust us, and you'll have support here.

Been dealing with ice storm fallout (still don't have home internet service but I broke down and dug up the password I hadn't saved to my phone - this site isn't really phone friendly)

Anyway, I couldn't let this thread pass by without publicly expressing my support here. Welcome to the sunshine sister.