I always knew I was female, even as a child. I gravitated toward toys that were marketed for girls, you know the story. As a young teenager, I came out as homosexual, though I knew it still wasn't quite right, but for the lack of a more precise term, I went with it. I was too male for the straight guys and too female for the gay ones. A couple of years after I started living full time this way (I was probably 20 or so when I started full time), I came across the term transgender and knew that it described what I had felt my entire life. It has never had anything to do with my genitals, really; I just knew that I always identified as female.