Oh the joys of hormones...
It was all started by a conversation with one of my friends about how my passport / visa images make friends and family worry whether they'll ever let me through security. Let's just say I tend to look slightly grim on those things...
So yesterday I posted a bunch of pictures on FB, basically 3 sets, presenting as male on all of them (at least officially):
- compilation of my driver's license / passport / visa pictures over the years, as well as two more recent images (one prior to starting HRT, the other one after 3.5 months)
- comparison of my clothing style, one from 2006, the other taken yesterday (in skinny jeans and a hoodie, just shy of 4 months of HRT)
- changed my profile picture to yet another one that I took yesterday, where I look rather younger than my almost 40 years
I received a lot of very positive comments complimenting me on how young I look etc., including posts accusing me of keeping paintings in the attic. The fun started when a friend of my mother's (whom I happen to be "friends" with on FB as well -- he's an artist and I get to see his projects
) gave her a phone call and said: "You urgently need to talk to your son, his facebook pictures look like he's leaving his old life behind and getting a sex-change." Okay...
So I am guessing that he's seen quite a few transitions before, as I wouldn't think it THAT obvious* (and an FTM friend confirmed that he would not have guessed, even though he is perforce steeped in the topic). Still, it does serve as a reminder that the hormones are changing quite a few things, and that at some stage only those people whom we interact with regularly will
not notice... Methinks I may need to "man it up" a bit for the office until I formally go full time.
* = as I'm out to my mother, and she's fine with it, she just grinned on the phone and listened intently, adding the appropriate noises of "oh", "that's interesting", "you don't say"
