I'm going to be a little self-indulgent here, my apologies.

There are various rumours about me and my private life that have popped up many times.

This week alone the number of kids has been 1,2,and 3....And Ive been divorced....

Allow me to clarify....

Are you watching KF?

I left school at 15, my dad took it upon himself to sign me up for an electronics course, because my uncle was into it.

At 19 I ran my own repair workshop at MerseySat, a long established satellite & aerial company in liverpool.

I hated electronics, I left when I was 22..

..to do drama at Colleg Harlech in wales in the late 90s.

In 1999 I was on the dole and took job repairing Televisions.
I lasted less than a year, because I still hated it.

I did a scriptwriting course.

In 2001 I met my gf online.

I moved to southport where she lived.

I took a job as a kitchen porter at Sandpipers respite home, run by the winged fellowship in southport.
I was trained up and became a chef.
My gf became pregnant, I wanted better hours than split shifts so I took a job at pizza express which was more flexible.

The cost of living anywhere nice in southport was too expensive, we came back to liverpool with a baby, and we had another baby.

I have two daughters.

I couldnt find work, so I opened an ebay shop repairing nintendo consoles.

In 2010 I had a lump on my neck.
I was misdiagnosed with cancer, which thankfully turned out to be a branchial cleft cyst......97% sure its cancer was the words the oncologist told me.

I have a 6 inch scar on my neck.

This took around 6 months start to finish.

It was heavy.

I suffered a massive dip in depression, despite everyone in the family being overjoyed.....because I realised I had to something about my feelings and being transgender.

I could have died and never transitioned was all I could think.

I was in a funk for a couple of years

until my brother asked me to be best man.....then I spiralled down into a deeper depression and alcoholism and drugs.

When that was over and I pulled myself up, and cleaned up.... I came out to my gf within 12 months.

I came out to everyone else within another 12 months.

My and my gf had spent every night together except for the birth of our children, for about 15 years.

Not another day or a night apart.

I have never cheated on my girlfriend once.

Never.

At one point we had a basically poly arrangement for a few years.

However, at this point in our lives...we are not exactly 'mainstream' in a lot of our beliefs.

And I have had fun with other people, and she has too.

Sex is fun, we're adults.

We are together for life.

And we tell each other everything.

Currently we both do various bits of online stuff, we've been self-employed in one way or another since I came back down to liverpool.

And since I started transitioning I havent been near a jobcentre, because I dont have to.

So no, self employed isnt being a parasite dears.

Here's a few snaps of us a few moths ago messing around in the pub.

She assures me she is very happy.....so mumsnet can stand at ease, she wont be turning up on one of your amusing trans widow threads..

But, yeah......you've nailed me on the attention seeking.

I'm a bugger for it.

And yet, the gendercrits provide me with more than enough!

Cheers!