Zoe Baldwin was inspired to lose weight as she transitioned (Picture: Media Drum World)

A transgender woman has revealed she was almost raped on her first date after transitioning.

Zoe Baldwin admitted she thought she ‘might be female’ as a child, but only decided to book hormone therapy when she was 25.

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Now 27, Zoe, from Tuscaloosa in Alabama, has opened up about the transitioning process – including her harrowing first date as a woman.

She said: ‘I experienced first-hand how differently men treat me when dating, I didn’t expect my first OK Cupid date to turn into attempted rape, which was very scary.


‘You get used to how your fellow gender treats you in one life and somewhere in your head even if you can look in the mirror and know you aren’t that person anymore, you just don’t expect things like that.’

A friend of a friend’s transitioning photos inspired her (Picture: Media Drum World)

Zoe, pictured in April 2016, said she always suspected she was a woman (Picture: Media Drum World)

Zoe had always suspected she may not be male, but was inspired to undergo hormone therapy when she saw a friend of a friend’s transition photo album.



It hit her ‘like a brick’ and convinced her to begin the process within days.

She said: ‘It really showed me what was possible in transitioning if you put the work in. The one thing that started going through my head is that I badly wanted to be pretty like her.

‘I started shaving my beard down completely every day and made an appointment for hormone therapy a few days later.’

She has now spoken out about her story (Picture: Media Drum World)

Zoe, pictured in February 2017, repressed her true feelings for years (Picture: Media Drum World)

As a child, Zoe told her brother and other children about her feelings, but was laughed at and repressed her true self.

She said: ‘I didn’t really even know what transgender meant until I was 20 and dating my first girlfriend who was transgender.

‘She was beautiful, and I was jealous of her. I thought about it very seriously over the next few years but kept it mostly to myself until 2016.’

Zoe added that her transitioning has inspired her to undergo a dramatic 50lbs (22.7kg) weight loss.