June 14th, 2008

I'm waiting for my flight at the Bangkok airport, and it's about time to put my thoughts together.  It's been an amazing journey for me, and the epiphany that I had after surgery still holds true.  I've been blessed with a great life.  I've seen life from 2 different vantage points that no one else except for trans people get to experience.  Not only that, I now feel whole and myself.  Exactly what transition is supposed to do.

Not all trans people need the extensive surgeries or even to transition at all.  The important thing is that we all get to be ourselves.  All it takes is to watch any children's TV show to get the message that we're all special.  As long as everyone is free to be their own special self, we'd all get to be happier.

That pretty much sums it up.  I've spent weeks recovering, and will be returning to my regularly scheduled life in just a few days.  Transition - or anyone's life journey is never truly over.  But for this phase of my life, it's essentially behind me.  Sure, I need more facial hair removal, and for vanity's sake and to eliminate the last male characteristic I'm able to, I may yet get some hair transplants to achieve a more feminine hair line.  But I pass just fine as it is, and regardless of what anyone thinks, I'm Leann - a woman.  As long as people at least show me respect for my identity, it won't bother me what they may think of my chromosomes or my past.  I feel complete as an individual, and not ashamed of myself, nor am I hiding anything.  This is awesome to me!

The purpose of this site was to keep people up to date on how my transition was proceding.  It was also meant to help other trans people see one person's path to achieve transition.  It's not my personal diary, nor is it my soap box.  There may be other issues of relevance to the 'trans condition' that happen to me in the course of time, but unless at the time I feel it's significant enough to add to this site, this is my last post.  I may take up the trans cause in some way, shape, or form, or perhaps I'll put up a more personal kind of site.  However, such things would be for another site, not meetleann.com.

I wish to thank the many people who have supported me and even helped pull me through this project.  The combination of family, friends, new friends and of course my employer made everything appear to be easy.  Well, it's not an easy task, but one that's nearly impossible to do with such a support network in place.  That's not to say to other trans people you need each of those facets, but having a sufficient group of people who can stand behind you makes it bearable.

Thank you all so much for following this path with me, and I hope that our relationship will continue along even though I'm 'closing the book' on this web site.  I wish all of you the same happiness in  your life, that I now have in mine.