Hello everyone!

By now I think a lot of you might have noticed something was different with me lately, and I've been meaning to approach the subject but it's taken me a while to get the courage to pull the trigger.

I've struggled a bit throughout my life with my image, my esteem and my identity. This has manifested in quite a lot of ways over the years (yes including the hair 💇🏻‍♀️) but it took me until recently to gather the pieces, and come to the realisation that I wasn't dysfunctional or abnormal, but that I was quite simply transgender.

These holidays have been very special for me, because for the first time I saw the real me in the mirror, and I knew that I didn't really want to go back. This was how I've felt inside for a long while, what I've always wanted to see in the mirror, and it was the first time I've felt truly good in my skin and happy about who I was.

So this year I've decided to finally accept myself and transition to the person I've always wanted to be, from this point on and for the rest of my life, because I've never felt this happy and excited about the future. I am very thankful for my wife’s help in all this, and I not only have her full support and love, but she's guiding me every step of the way and this feels like a new chapter in both our book and mine.

While a few things will change I want to emphasis how much nothing really will. I'm still the same person, I will still make the same puns, but I'm just gradually going to inch closer to the person I am inside. That means that from this point on, I would actually prefer it if you used her and she to refer to me... and if you called me Emma, which is how I've called myself in my head for a while now. You don't have to get it right all the time, you don't have to worry about saying anything bad, I'm not gonna shame you, just be yourselves and do your best and I'll be thankful for it whatever happens.

It's going to take a while for me to reach my goals, so I hope you bear with me during that time. Eventually my voice is going to change, whenever I'll feel ready, so I hope that goes smoothly as well as it's going to take me a while to really master it.

I'm not gonna dwell on too much, come to me if you have any question or anything. I don't want to make this something huge, I just had to come out at some point as it's been difficult for me to hide myself for hours a day (and I haven't been doing a very good job at it). So it was important that I could just be myself at work openly.

I thank you all for your support, the years I've spent with you so far, and the years the real me will spend with you after.

Emma