Brianna Austin was born a man in the baby-boomer age, excelled at sports, and would have been viewed by most as a good-looking, athletic alpha guy — despite the long-kept internal secret of gender dysphoria.

During her years as a man, Brianna has been a career entrepreneur, launching and operating several companies, ranging from small endeavors to others generating up to $500,000 a month in revenue. There were critical and/or financial successes in the fields of transportation and entertainment.

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Brianna’s first memories of feeling different were set free when her older sister dressed up one day. She didn’t know what these feelings were, or why dressing as a girl ignited a sense of well-being, but found it deliciously curious.

When her sister ran off to get their mom and said, “Come see how cute …”, Brianna panicked; she raced to the door, and, with her shoes slipping on the hardwood floor, fought furiously to prevent them from entering. Her mom quickly lost interest in the kids goofing around.

Brianna Austin went into the closet that day, where she remained for another 35+ years, dressing up in private.

Throughout the decades that followed, she was compelled to keep dressing up, always in private, not knowing then that each episode was a need to push the “girl experience” a step further. But to what end? She never even heard the word transgender before, although by the mid-1960s, she became familiar with the word transvestite.

By 2000, she needed to explore this compulsive behavior, figure out its source, and cure herself of it. The result was a self-exploration with almost reckless abandonment. But the more she came out — first in the transgender community, and later into the mainstream– the more comfortable she became with who she was, and though not a girl, she was soon living a girl’s life, daily.

Self-acceptance, along with the “ability to explore without fear of what you may find”, she says, is one of the keys to happiness. Her mantra for life is to “be truthful always” with herself and others.

You can read more about the Brianna Austin journey in the forthcoming book “The Last Woman & Me.”

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