When I was 15 my mom caught me dressed and made up like a girl. I wanted to be a girl so badly but I was embarrassed and thought she and my dad would disown me.

So what did she do when she caught me? she took me shopping for girl's clothes, to have my hair and nails done and for make-up lessons all in one weekend. I was just starting to enter that part of puberty known as the point of no return where the body is on the verge of being too masculine to "pass." But I was still young, cute and pretty and my hair was nice and grown out long already anyways. When she told my Dad I thought he was going to freak but instead he was really cool about it and told me that parents get to name their children and that since Frank was no longer viable how did I feel about Melissa his mother's name. So Now I'm Melissa. So I started tenth grade as Frank and finished it as Melissa. My parents walked right up to the principals office and informed them that I was now a girl and would need to be treated accordingly. From then on I wore girl's clothes, make-up and went by Melissa. They were shockingly cool about it at school though there were some kids who tried to bully me but a lot of my new girl friends acted like a body guard. So I just graduated the happiest girl in the class of 2016