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-canHi 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?
