Thread:AilynnMoore/@comment-5054628-20170107181929/@comment-30980779-20170107191408

Thank you, Toupou! Nice to meet you, too! :)

Thanks for checking, and yes...I used to use the alias ShinRyoga (or Brad "ShinRyoga" Moore), and I created a few stages and characters with my friend Jason "NeoAnkh" Kidd. I've used a couple of other aliases sicne retiring from Mugen, such as ShinSamus and AilynnStarlight, but mostly I just go by my new legale name Ailynn Moore.

I struggled since I was about 4 years old with my gender identity. Even though I was assigned male at birth, it never felt right to me. Especially around 12 years old, I started drasticly feeling like I was supposed to be female...but I was a kid that never wanted to go against the grain with anything. My Mom has always had terrible health issues, and I didnt want to cause her any more stress. Plus, it was the 80's and 90's....the world just wasn't very understanding about a lot of things back then, and I didn't want to stand out. I just wanted to fit in as much as possible, so I tried...hard...for nearly 40 years. All that did was make me incredibly depressed, anxious, and eventually suicidal.

2016 was a year of rebirth for me. I came out to everyone as transgender, and that I had started transitioning. SInce then, I learned that I am what can be called a "DES Grandson", and my mother is a "DES Daughter." To explain, my maternal grandmother was prescribed a synthetic super-estrogen called Diethylstilbestrol (DES) in order to prevent a third miscarriage while pregant with my mother. My Mom was born, but has since had many health issues...and I epigenitically carry these same alterred genes that can cause high probability for cancer, tumors, transgender/transsexual brain neurology, genital malformations, and intersex bodies and chromosomal abnormalities. In my case, my body developed male during that development phase, but my brain developed as female.

More and more everyday, scientific studies are finding that synthetic endocrine disrupting chemicals are all around us in our daily lives, and when a mother is exposed to these in large amounts when her unborn child is developing, DRASTIC changes to the child's biology may take place. It's a global tragedy, and is why you see more and more cases of transgender and intersex children these days than ever before. Many people may even have intersex issues and are never aware of it.

...Wow, sorry about that. Didn't mean to go off on all of that! But yes, I am ShinRyoga. Thanks for checking in on me! :)