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 Becoming Ted is a lovely book by Matt Cain about a man who had dreams that never seemed to be fulfilled, he was trapped in a job he didn't want to do with a husband that curtailed his dreams at every turn, that is until his husband left him for another man. We follow the beautiful loving and sometimes painful story....... Will Ted ever be able to realise his dreams?  It's a great book, very well written humorous witty and at times sad. It brought tears to my eyes at times, a great read with a message to follow your dream, be the person you want to be, live the life you want. The story resonated with me in so many ways, as I'm sure it will with you.  Fabulous, just fabulous!!

  How many of us have said we are on a journey? Well dealing with being transgendered is  always a journey, but unlike any other journey you take in life this has an indeterminate starting point and no destination. All our journeys are different, we move at different paces, we have different goals, but there are a lot of similarities and we can all learn from each others experiences. My journey began many years ago when I was very young, but at the time and for years after I had no idea I was on a journey at all. This crossdressing thing wouldn't go away and by the time I was in my 20's it hadn't progressed much beyond trying on dresses for a few snatched hours here and there. Then it seemed to stop, mostly because of work, family etc, I say seemed as I thought that was all behind me, I was wrong, very wrong. Now I won't bore you with all the details but when I recommenced my journey it took on a whole new purpose, this is when I started to let the female inside of me ...

 Here in the the UK, more specifically in England and Wales in 2021 the Government carried out a census of the population, this is done every 10 years to provide information on a range of subjects from population density, housing, how people travel to work etc etc. For the first time there were questions about gender and sexual orientation. These questions were voluntary, so although the results will give an indication there is no way of knowing how accurate any conclusions drawn could be without further research.  Results of the census are now being released by the Office for National Statistics and are available on line, search for Census 2021. There are some interesting figures in the report, to me the thing that stood out the most is that according to the census, the group most likely to identify as trans (the report defines this as "gender identity was different from their sex registered at birth") is 16 to 24 years of age, with 1% of the population (63,000) compared wit...