My Coming Out

Hi, My name is Nathaniel Kemp or previously known as Nokomis Kemp and this is my story. I am female to male transgender and I feel like we need to normalize our stories and share them with everyone even with all the differences on the world. I knew I was different at a very young age. I was still in elementary school when I really knew. I never came out until my senior year of high school which was in 2017. School was really hard especially since I was the type of person who really dressed as they felt. I dressed as a dude some days and dressed as a girly girl the next and I got picked on a lot for that, but that was me. It was who I was. It was who I desired myself as, but as I got older things started to change. I had started to over feminize myself because I was starting to feel some disassociation with my body. This was around my freshman year that I started really worrying myself with what was going on. Although I never had the nerves to go to my mom about it because her ex-husband I ended up just keeping it to myself. A couple years had gone I was dressing however I wanted just like I did I’m elementary school and people still saw me as a freak but I was just being me. I think what pushed me the most on coming out in my senior year was when my grandma was dying in the hospital and I know I couldn’t bare her not seeing live up to who I wanted myself to be. My grandma did end up passing away earlier that year but I still came out for her because she always knew that I was meant to be something better and something greater. She always told me to never be ashamed of who I was and that’s what really pushed me to come out to my mom even though I still had a lot of doubt because I never knew if she would support me or not. Fast forward about a year and a half when I moved out and I started my medical transition. I’m currently 2 years and some months on testosterone and I couldn’t be happier. There are still struggles I deal with in this life as now I’m 21. Theres dating and now being accepted by a partner. There’s also workforce’s who don’t really accept it either but we manage. Mind you this was just a summed up version of my coming out story. I love myself now more than I ever have.

•wise words of my grandma

“Please never be ashamed to be yourself. There’s only one of you. Just be you.”