Attitude adjustment and evolution
On the 7th September I will be 15 months full time and as of today I have been on hormones for 1 year.
This morning I said to Emma "It's been quite a year..." There was going to be more to that sentence... but, well... you know.
"No shit sherlock" was Emma's reply (in a good humoured voice I might add).
It's not so much that I wanted to write at length about this but I had a thought...
Way back... about autumn of last year... I was regularly communicating with others in transgender support sites about my condition and my sense of self awareness. I also recall that often some members were making statements that (and I apologise for paraphrasing) "I'm just a woman."
I don't mean that as a "dig" by the way, it's just that their words were the trigger for my thought.
Now one year later I can really relate to the sentiment. I too feel at the core of me as just another normal woman... absolutely.
But (also) one that has experienced an foetal physical development anomaly which resulted in my being born with male genitalia and all the side effects of that. And I'm OK living with that.
But the main point was that, beside everything else, I am just another woman living her life.
This morning I said to Emma "It's been quite a year..." There was going to be more to that sentence... but, well... you know.
"No shit sherlock" was Emma's reply (in a good humoured voice I might add).
It's not so much that I wanted to write at length about this but I had a thought...
Way back... about autumn of last year... I was regularly communicating with others in transgender support sites about my condition and my sense of self awareness. I also recall that often some members were making statements that (and I apologise for paraphrasing) "I'm just a woman."
I don't mean that as a "dig" by the way, it's just that their words were the trigger for my thought.
Now one year later I can really relate to the sentiment. I too feel at the core of me as just another normal woman... absolutely.
But (also) one that has experienced an foetal physical development anomaly which resulted in my being born with male genitalia and all the side effects of that. And I'm OK living with that.
But the main point was that, beside everything else, I am just another woman living her life.