Hi Logan,

Firstly, thanks for your help getting out there, sir. I'm deeply appreciative of your help (although there is one edit I need to change in order for one paragraph to read more correctly.

Secondly, the idea of 'Over-sharing' ... Well, I think that's endemic in all the letters of the Rainbow Alphabet. We're marginalised and thus are inevitably subject to trauma. Hell, some of even form relationships through 'trauma-bonding'. It's a cliché even.

My girlfriend of 3 met me through a piece I'd written about 6 attacks in one month. (we also got engaged and moved in together within 3 days, so we've never been busting either trans, or lesbian stereotypes!)

I made myself vulnerable and visible from the get-go. Both make me a target, and I have been fine with that. I figured if some asshole was hassling me then I was wasting precious seconds of his during which he might have been abusing another trans person, who might be less a thick-skinned bitch than me.

It's all the other stuff that has pushed me to the brink.

But it's my fervent hope that people , trans or not, who might read and find something/anything that might remind them, at their lowest, most extreme points, that there are reasons to turn their backs on the abyss and to live.

Personally, Yeah, I think I'll be fine. I have an amazing girlfriend who can be challenging too -two trans women in a relationship has its... ups and downs. But she's a rock.

Logan, again, thanks for your help, sir.