Hey y'all.
So, I finally started the process of getting my hormones yesterday. I'm in the GIC, and it should only be a few more months until I can start T, yay!
Maybe it's in light of this, but I've just been so grouchy when get my pronouns wrong. People I know well are all fine, but new acquaintances make mistakes. While most have been polite and apologised, it still really bugs me. But before I was always able to just laugh it off and forget about it, providing they weren't doing it to be mean.
The other night at a bar I tried to get a beer, and the chick on the bar asked for my ID, looked at it, loudly said it was a girl and that she wasn't going to serve me. I explained I was transgendered and showed her my other ID with the same name on, and she went to get her manager to debate whether she could give me the damn beer, taking my ID with her so I couldn't leave. In front of everyone on a crowded bar. It sucked. Maybe it's since that incident, but now any mistake really, really bothers me! I've even snapped at one of my lecturers because she kept using the wrong verb form in language classes to me. I was rude, and I felt bad, but I told her a year ago.
Did anyone else get increasingly frustrated by incorrect pronouns as they got closer to treatment? Obviously they're to be expected since I'm pre-T, but coming from people who I know know just drives me up the wall and really ruins my day, when it didn't used to
