Leonard Noel Norwood

LEONARD NOEL NORWOOD

**Appearance**

The Main Co-Character, born perceived as a male, was given the birth name of 'Leonard Noel Norwood'. Leonard has a thin body, with long arms and legs. They are a bit short for a teenage boy, but about the right height for a teenage girl. They have natural blonde hair, in a light yellow tone, with medium brown highlights, and kept in a short 'mop style' haircut. Leonard has round face with a slightly pointed chin, big 'anime girl' eyes, in a 'baby blue' shade. They have a beige skin tone, even all over, with average sized hands and feet. Other than being a 'blue-eyed blonde', Leonard's overall appearance is rather bland and average, at best.

Leonard would always dress sloppy casual. They would always wear t-shirts or sports shirts, and sports logo jackets, always paired with worn or torn blue jeans. Many times his hair was ragged and unkempt.

**Personality and Circumstances**

Leonard was born perceived as a male, raised as a boy, but knew inside from early on that they were a girl. Leonard was an only child. As a child, and about the time that they entered the first grade, Leonard had insisted to the parents that they should wear a dress to school, like all the other girls do. Also about this time he met a neighborhood girl named Deedee. Eventually, Deedee learned from Leonard that they were a girl inside. Deedee was okay with that private disclosure. However. this was met with stiff opposition from the parents, so much so, that the parents tried to put Leonard through questionable mental and emotional childhood counseling. They even tried to force so-called "Conversion" and "Reparative" therapy (\*) for transgender people on their child, practices that are now almost universally condemned as quack medical treatments and fake science, and are illegal in reputable medical practices.

All during childhood and the early teens, Leonard became increasingly aware that they could not live their life as the authentic girl they knew themselves to be, especially being a minor. Therefore as a defense mechanism for the time being, they tried to cover their internal femininity with toxic maleness and a faux, masqueraded manhood. They developed an 'I am better than you and I can prove it' flaw in their personality. To supposedly 'prove their manhood', Leonard became involved in following professional sports and sports trivia. However, after going through the horrors of male puberty, finally, at the age of fourteen, they were quite unexpectedly presented with a chance to began to transition to their correct Gender Identity of female.

Leonard had thought (incorrectly) that they were consistently loosing the game of Chibi Chess because the other three girls that they played against were somehow winning solely by wearing ultra-feminine clothing that was so different from those girl's usual fashion style. Also, Leonard unknowingly allowed himself to become distracted during the game play. He was infatuated with the girl's prerogative to wear eye shadow, lipstick, fingernail polish, jewelry, as well as deciding to wear pleated mini-skirts that shows one's completely bare legs. Leonard, after much soul-searching, decided to try the girl's ploy themselves by also wearing a pretty, attractive dress, and light makeup, to one of the afternoon chess games. However, Leonard did not realize by doing so, the mental, emotional, and social impact that such an action would have on their cognitive thinking and behavior, plus how such action would reset their sense of priorities. Then going out in public dressed as a teenage girl, after the chess game, as well as the positive response from all three girl companions, in a sense, 'jump started' Leonard's desire to transition to their correct gender of a teenage female. Leonard then continued to covertly dress in girl's fashions whenever they were at Deedee's house for the chess games or doing 'girl stuff'. Later, Leonard was examined by medical professionals, and correctly diagnosed as a male to female transgender teenager. After much blood, sweat, and tears, and a threat to have Leonard legally taken from them because of their destructive behavior towards Leonard's gender goals and mental condition, the parents finally came around to, more or less, helping Leonard transition to that of their correct gender of that of a teenage girl. These more favorable conditions actually helped to mold Leonard into having several good personality traits, such as self-worth, determination, acceptance of who they really were inside, and becoming more extroverted socially as a girl. In a sense, transitioning was the best thing that ever happened to Leonard.

A childhood friend of Leonard's (Deedee) suggested that they begin using their middle name as their accepted female name. Thus, the day that they dressed as a girl for the first time, Leonard Noel Norwood became Noel Norwood. Noel eventually legally changed her name to Noel Holly Norwood.

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(\*) **Conversion or Reparative therapy**

**Conversion therapy** (also called Reparative therapy) is the pseudoscientific practice of trying to change an individual's [Gender Identity to reflect one's perceived birth gender] using psychological, physical, or spiritual interventions. There is no reliable evidence that [Gender Identity] can be changed and medical institutions warn that conversion therapy practices are ineffective and potentially harmful. Medical, scientific, and government organizations in the United States and United Kingdom have expressed concern over the validity, efficacy and ethics of conversion therapy. Various jurisdictions around the world have passed laws against conversion therapy.

**Trivia**

In the English language, the first name Leonard is masculine, and means a brave lion.