72 days... 1 day to go!
This post is for yesterday - unfortunately the site outage kept me from sharing the day's adventures.
We had a family get together for my niece and my birthday's. Hers was earlier this week, mine was weeks ago. I was there in dude-mode. It was a good gauge to see if my folks had gone weird on me after the news I dropped on them two days earlier. But they were still cool. My mother was nervous about me telling my sister (let alone her three kids), she's had a rough twelve months of it... I said I'd play it by ear but she'd have to know sooner rather than later. As it turns out I found a good opportunity to talk with her privately about her stuff and then dropped mine into the mix, telling her I was transgender. She said, "Oh yeah, I know, you've already told me"...!!! Turns out I must have revealed my transgender past at some point after my first attempt. I'd forgotten, seem to vaguely recall it now. And she was totally fine. I told her I'd be transitioning at work, that I'd told the folks and they were cool with it. We decided to tell he two sons, my nephews (19 & 16). They were both cool with it, especially when I told them I'd still be interested in the same stuff as before (comics, sci-fi, etc).
Gee, I know my family wouldn't have been this OK with it 20 years ago, but jeeze if they had been it would have made it easier to transition, that's for sure!!
Now all I have to do is get ready for work tomorrow!
