Instagram post in which Tuft made her first social media appearance as a transgender woman, Tuft wrote that her previous eight months had been "some of the darkest of my entire life," adding, "The emotional turmoil of being transgender and having to face the world has almost ended me on multiple occasions.""This is me.
Unashamed, unabashedly me," she wrote. "This is the side of me that has hidden in the shadows, afraid and fearful of what the world would think; afraid of what my family, friends, and followers would say or do...
My loving wife, family, and closest friends have accepted me for who I am. To them, I am forever grateful.""I don't expect everyone to agree or understand.