FTM. Do you know what that means? For the unwary, it means female-to-male transsexual. That's what I am, even though I haven't begun any surgeries or started taking hormones yet. If you were to look at me, you'd see a six-foot-tall, blonde-haired, kind of tomboyish white chick. You might even check out my big boobs and big white butt and think that I'm hot, and that's where you'd be wrong. What you find attractive about me is what absolutely repulses me to my core.
Got a surprise for you, dearest reader. I don't want to be female. I don't know how I can explain it any further. I hate my female body. I hate being treated like a female. Even in this age of gender equality and progressive politics. I am not a woman, even though my outward appearance says otherwise. I don't like being referred to as she. Call me they. In my heart and in my soul, I know that I am a man. I want to be the man I've always known I was meant to be. My driver's licence says Jacqueline Brownstone, born on November 9, 1984. Call me Jack, please.
I've always been quirky and weird, and not just because of my self-admitted transgender status. Most of my friends are male and I have no use for female friends with their drama, their fake ways and their bullshit. No, I am not a gay chick. I don't lust after women. I feel attracted to masculinity. I like men's bodies, and men's ways of thinking, feeling and dealing with the world. Oh, and I fuck men. I am a gay man trapped inside a female body. Welcome to my life.
The other day, I spied a tall, hunky young man of African descent walking through Hog's Back Park in the south end of Ottawa. This park is one of my favorite spots, located within walking distance of Carleton University, my alma mater. I studied Criminology at Carleton University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in the summer of 2007. Anyhow, I followed this cute, Somali-looking guy as he walked through the park, and headed for an old outdoors washroom. A wooden, antique leftover from when the park last got renovated by the City of Ottawa.