You know once in a while we just need to have a laugh about things. Like being a trans guy myself i know all to well of the harsh realities we face and how much they suck but its good just to step back and not take things too seriously for once.
Take last night for example. I was at a very close friends 20th birthday party. I'll be 20 myself next month.
Anyway we went to dinner and then met up with more people in a gay bar afterwards and then went to a gay night club. it was a good night, a bit of drama but whats a night out without a bit of drama. (the drama had nothing to do with me or trans stuff. just unreated bircering between friends and two girls who are really into eachother but nither will one will make the first move cause they're both idiots lol my friends are idiots)
anyway back on topic when we were sat around in the bar having a nice chat while having a few drinks. I said something and it embarrassed me though it was quite funny/cool when i think back about it. now bare in mind i don't drink so i was completely sober.
The group was a mixture of guys and girls. We are all good friends too. None of them know me from before i started transitioning and i'm seen as male and they use all the right names and pronous all the time. Its not a big deal with them at all. I might have been the token transguy but I'm still just one of the lads you know.
Anyway Then my best friend (boyfriend of the birthday boy) went to the bathroom. When he came back he mentioned this guy that we saw across the bar and that we both thought was hot said hi to him in the bathroom. Which he thought was odd cause one he never met him before and two even though its Ireland where everyone does say hello to each other we don't generally do it in bathrooms lol however the way my best friend described it he made it sound like that after he was in his cubical the man walk into his cubical to say hi to him and playing along with the conversation, trying to get my head around i said jokingly:
"So you were just sat on the toilet peeing and he walked in on you to say hi?"
My friend then explained this better and the whole group laughed and moved on to the next topic of conversation. Nothing was made of my comment either. it was an unimportant, passing comment that even i myself was beginning to forget about. then my best friend leaned over to me and quietly siad just to me and not the group:
"Andy ummm, You know ummm, cis-gendered guys don't generally pee sitting down."
Now bare in mind he was trying to be sensitive and unoffensive. he was just pointing out what i said. I blushed realizing what i said and we had a laugh about it.
I know it might seem like something insignificant or unimportant but for that brief moment i forgot i was trans, i didn't see myself as a member of the transgender community but as a fully "normal" male. And that things i do a little different like going to the bathroom seemed completely normal to me and that it was normal for other guys too. It was a refreshing moment really. It just shows how much I've progressed and how comfortable i am with myself now. The slip of the tongue did make me laugh, like i had and go express this felling of "normality" by saying something awkward lol.
So does anyone have any uplifting funny/embarrassing stories trans related?
Like i'm sure passing might throw up a few like the confused receptionists at my college always make me laugh. or once when i booked a ticket they but miss andrew *last name* on it which i found funny. Then i booked a barbers appointment and they had my name as Mandy on it lol so clearly they miss heard when i said Andy and that made me laugh too. I'm sure there much funnier incidents then that lol. I just have a silly sense of humor and a good attidued towards all this i guess.
Thanks for reading my ramble lol
