I was born a boy but always felt more like a girl. I lived a very sheltered life and didn't even know "drag" was a thing, let alone "trans," until I was in my 20's. I thought I was the only one, some sort of sick freak.
While I do think of myself as a trans woman I'll probably never try to live as a woman, let alone look into the surgery. I do drag but that's as far as it goes. I'm a little bit old to change horses now. Besides I'd probably fall off.
My stories are fantasies about what it might be like had I either been born a girl or explored drag in my younger days.
I was always attracted to both men and women, but much more to men. Especially older men. I'm in a relationship now with a much older man who is happy to treat me as a woman and always refer to me with feminine pronouns. I loosely based a character on him and exaggerated the age difference.
For my true coming of age story check out my new pen name, Monica Courtisan.