My classmates know only a couple facts about me: That I am into guys and that I'm feminine. Some even know that my hormonal levels resemble a females. None of them, however, know that I am transsexual or even transgendered in any way. Today I felt a sort of acceptance towards my target gender. Actually, I'd been feeling this acceptance for quite some time now.
I'm in school for Cosmetology. So as you can imagine, most of my class is female. 1 guy is in my class (no, not me), so you can just imagine all the girl talk that goes on in there. A few weeks ago, we were doing roller sets and a girl asked "So, if yall could be a girl, would you?" .. he responded and said "Yeah but I'd switch back the next day, no way I'd stay a girl!" ... the class laughed. I responded with "Yeah I'd be a girl and I probably wouldn't ever look back!" .. which wasn't met with any surprise or comment whatsoever, just everybody continuing on with what they were doing.
Saturday, me and a couple girls in there were talking about bras. One girl was talking directly to me about a bra that did some of the same functions as a corset, and we were just talking together like I had been wearing bras since I hit puberty! The thing about it is, I didn't sense
ANY hints of secrecy or distrust, or any response like I didn't know what I was talking about. Also, my teacher kept using female pronouns, then quickly corrected herself. "You can ask her.. him, sorry!"
My final story happened today. I had asked my bestie in my class to bring some concealer to cover my under eye circles. She did, didn't act like a big deal. When she gave it to me I asked her to put it on me in class. Again, she did.. now every time I have had a girl put make up on me, they act like it's some sort of LOL moment. Even when I visited a cosmetologist that knew I was trans (set up by my therapist), I could sense a bit of LOL in her demeanor. I got not 1 hint of it from my friend. She was seriously acting like she was putting it on another female. She even stopped putting it on and gave it to me, didn't watch me until I was finished, gave it a look and said "Good job" .. and we got back to working in the book like nothing happened. Not ONE person in that class even chuckled, looked my way funny, or otherwise gave 2 craps about it.
Amazing to me. I'm getting this sort of acceptance and they don't even know I'm trans. I haven't made 1 attempt whatsoever, or even mentioned a word about transitioning, yet they're basically treating me like I already have.. except the fact they use male pronouns (and sometimes they slip up on that!).
Has anybody else experienced this sort of unspoken acceptance towards you? If so, I would love to hear the stories
