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Gender Transition in the Department of State: Yes You Can!

Started by Shana A, December 02, 2011, 06:43:20 PM

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Shana A

December 02, 2011, 06:43:20 PM
Gender Transition in the Department of State: Yes You Can!
Posted Wed, 11/30/2011 - 4:29pm by vicepresident

http://www.glifaa.org/blog/gender-transition-department-state-yes-you-can

Hi everyone - today I'm very glad to share a posting from a guest blogger, GLIFAA member Robyn McCutcheon of Bucharest.  I hope you'll enjoy Robyn's guest post, which I am pasting below.

Yes, it is possible to transition gender within the State Department, and it can be done at an overseas post.  I am living proof.  In my mid-50s and with State being my second career, I have known I was transgender from my earliest years even though I did not know the word.  I attempted to come to terms with being transgender in college in the 1970s, again in 1990, and a third time in 2000-02.  Each time I was forced back into a closet, unable to overcome the obstacles both within myself and in society.  When I began again to walk this path in 2010, I did so with dark memories of those earlier attempts.  Would I have the courage and strength to see this through, perhaps the last chance in this lifetime to live as myself, not as an artificial construct for others?
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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