The song above is 'I am Woman' by Helen Reddy. The video also shows the sad toll of violence against women in the USA. Don't worry I'm not about to say how bad things are in the US compared to anywhere else, as they are horrendous everywhere.

As you may well have noticed we are a group of girls going from a position of relative power as male to a far less safe role as women. Heaven forbid that any form of violence happens to one of us girls, but statistically I would imagine if is more than likely that it will.

I don't know about other girls, but you could say I was subject to constant domestic violence whilst I was married. I was often verbally attacked which then turned into physical attacks. However, as a man I could not retaliate against a woman. I couldn't help thinking that in terms of her violent nature my wife was 'more a man than I'd ever be!!!"

Perhaps my wife's 'antics' were just giving me a taste of what it was like to be a battered woman, which is something I would hate to happen to a single one of us! If iit does happen please report it and get help!

I have only just started dressing as a woman, but ever since I finally decided that I finally HAD TO make my childhood dream come true I have been suffering from what I can only describe as 'female seepage'.

For almost as long as I can remember I have been almost allergic to the colour pink!!! As a boy I always saw it as too 'girlie' and a total cliché. Since when did colours have anything to do with which sex you were? As if any intelligent person would fall for this rot? Isn't it yet another clever marketing ploy?

It seemed to me as if it really was a 'marketeers' dream and women just fell for it hook, line and sinker! As if anyone in their right mind would equate a colour with the sex they were!!!

Then it happened!!!

I had made the decision and I knew this was the time. I am going to be the girl I was always meant to be!!!!!

No sooner had the thought coalesced in my head than the strangest things started happening!! Whatever the occasion and where ever you are when it comes to a colour I realised, pink is just perfect!

It's so feminine and warm. It separates the better sex from the simpletons (men). It's a colour that shows your true sex for all to see. We wear it with pride because on a woman the effect of pink clothes is simply wonderful.

A life long prejudice against pink simply melted away, after all I AM A GIRL!!

As for Blue!!! (Yuck!) Isn't it a disgusting colour? It reminds me of smelly pubs and clubs. All boys together and not one brain cell between them! I've even heard that some football (soccer) teams play in blue strips, what softies? Why don't they choose the winning colour and choose to play in pink!!!??

The song above is 'Sex and Drugs, and Rock and Roll' by the late great Ian Dury and his band the Blockheads. I was just browsing around You Tube and some old favourites, when I remembered this old track - it was 30 years ago that it was first released, but to a certain extent it illustrates a question that I am not sure how to answer!

You see on line last night I was asked by a man at what stage in my transition would I consider having sex with a man. He is in Egypt so it is unlikely we'd ever meet, but it got me thinking (A dangerous pastime - I know). I always thought the earliest time I would think about it would be after I had healed, when I will be as close as I can be in this life to a full woman.

Back to rock and roll, and I don't mean Joan Jett, I do love my music and still have loads of old fashioned vinyl albums and signals! As for the drugs in the song in our case I take it the drugs will be hormones!!!

Even as a man I always fully respected women for their choice of what to do with their bodies, but as a woman should I simply be prepared to satisfy any man who want's it??!