Fluttershy comes out to the rest of the bearers of the Elements as a trans mare. This story follows what happens next: with her, with the mare she's fallen in love with, with the Mane Six, and with respect to their friendship.

This was (and remains, for that matter) my first fic, and was an attempt to apply concepts of transgender identity to Equestria. I felt like a world as accepting of, well, everything as Equestria tends to be would be a fascinating place to explore identity. I hope it worked!

(I wrote this before reading Dash's Secret (by Hopefox), but if you enjoyed this story, I can't recommend Dash's Secret highly enough. It engages with some of the same issues, but is (IMHO) better written than mine. http://www.fimfiction.net/story/1876/Dash%27s-Secret)

A note: "trans mare" refers to somepony assigned male at birth and raised as a colt who comes to identify as a mare later in life. I'm following human usage here.

Following Fluttershy in first person though all the confusing and scary feelings of first coming out as transgender, all of her friends react to her coming out in different ways. Frankly, she doesn't know which reaction is the worst to deal with and she knows it will take a miracle for her friends to understand her. Who will stay by her side, and who will refuse Fluttershy's new identity?

This is the story of Fluttershy as a transgender colt (in human terms, female to male). For those that don't know, transgender is used to describe someone who doesn't identify with the gender they were assigned at birth

Disclaimer: None of the pictures in the chapters are mine. They are simple vector images put together :)

The art on chapter two is by AnonymousMogma on DeviantArt

The vector image on chapter ten is by Scrimpeh on DeviantArt