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| Original image. JJ Hart writing. |
Recently, I reached a milestone as far as my blogging “career” goes.
This week, I reached and went over my five millionth hit to
the blog which was amazing to me when I considered the humble way this all got
started. I actually started blogging a long time ago when I barely even knew
what the term meant. And I did it mainly because of the discussions I had with “Connie”
an online transgender woman friend I had met from Seattle. Along the way, on another
site we were on, we discovered a mutual dislike for what we called “trans-nazi’s”
or transsexuals who based their worth on the number of gender operations they
had undergone. Somehow, they felt better than the rest of us and were not shy
about letting us know it.
From there, I had started to relay the experiences I was
having as I initially began the trip out of my closet and into the world. “Connie”
thought my experiences would be worth sharing and here we are so many years
later. In many ways, both of us share the same sarcastic sense of humor, so we
matched up well.
On a much deeper level than just harassing the “trans-nazi’s”,
I hoped sharing what I went through in my lifelong gender journey would be a
great way to pay forward my experiences and help others. Every time I receive a
comment or two from a person in need of guidance as a beginning cross dresser
or transgender person, I feel honored that they reached out to me. While all
our trips are different, at the same time we are similar and have all have the
same opportunities to learn from each other.
Five million hits later, I now realize the strain of finding
subjects to write about on a daily basis really takes it out on me until I run
across a comment or two which keeps me going. It fulfils the original idea I had
when I started writing something I did not know I could keep on doing for any
length of time. When the comments kept rolling in, I knew I was on the right
track because I thought the audience I was writing to represent is a very
narrow part of a potential audience. Then I thought, if I was reaching just one
person out of the vast majority of readers on the internet, I would be doing my
job. I learned to be more satisfied with being more of a niche blog, designed
for the transgender audience or those that were questioning being trans and
would their life look similar to mine. Because switching your main binary gender
is so difficult and intimidating to do.
The bottom line is, I would not have all those hits if it
was not for you and I cannot comprehend how many of you come from around the
world to visit the blog. My deepest thanks go out to all of you no matter where
you are.
Even though now I write on two separate platforms, I still
write for free because I feel it is the right thing to do. It just makes me
feel better.
Once again, I cannot thank you enough for joining me in my
gender journey and I should do it more. Just be assured, it means a lot to me
when you read along and even take the time to comment!
May we continue on to many subjects together in the future.
