{"id":503,"date":"2014-09-23T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/?p=503"},"modified":"2023-03-14T13:39:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T17:39:54","slug":"so-theres-that-day-1-new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/so-theres-that-day-1-new-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"So There’s That, Day 1: New Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

So There’s That: Adventures in Transgendering chronicled my transition in 2014. One hopes the gentle readers will forgive any awkward or anachronistic language within.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

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I\u2019ve been struggling with gender identity for most of my life.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It feels so freeing to say that now.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It was 40 years ago, literally, that I crossdressed for the first time. I was eight years old and tried on a cute little dress in the basement of a local thrift shop. And it made me feel so\u2026 alive. Almost electric.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

But I\u2019ve hidden that part of me from the world, purged it, denied it \u2014 if it\u2019s a stage of death and dying \u2014 I\u2019ve done it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

So in the past week I decided this is no longer tolerable. To quote\u00a0All That Jazz\u00a0<\/em>(and Dr.\u00a0K\u00fcbler-Ross on the final stage of\u00a0death and dying), \u201cI accept!\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I am transgender, hear me roar\u2026 and I\u2019ll be damned if I\u2019m going to be ashamed of it anymore.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

So I bit the bullet and made two appointments for this week. One with a gender specialist and a second with a hair stylist to get my hair cut in a more feminine style (finally!).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I am so excited right now. I\u2019m sure the fear will creep in, but right now, I am stupid, giggly happy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So There’s That: Adventures in Transgendering chronicled my transition in 2014. One hopes the gentle readers will forgive any awkward or anachronistic language within. — I\u2019ve been struggling with gender identity for most of my life. It feels so freeing to say that now. It was 40 years ago, literally, that I crossdressed for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-so-theres-that"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t