Seeking community and understanding Out N About series continues with transgender…

PrideSource.com – By Jim Larkin

Flint – Vanessa Lynne understands only too well the confusion and doubt that many feel about those who are transgender. After all, she has struggled with it for all of her 44 years, not coming out until just a few years ago.

She is a biological man who identifies as being a woman. She has been married to a woman for more than 10 years – although she dresses as a woman at their suburban Genesee County home only when her spouse is not around. And she has absolutely no idea who she will be 10 years from now: Will she make the full transition to a woman as she has long dreamed, or continue living with a foot in one door as a man and in another as a woman, never fully entering either room?