I had an odd experience. I got a phone call from the Equal Opportunity people at the University I teach at. They asked if I could be a counsellor or ALLY for gender diverse people. They have several. They asked me because they had heard I was an out and about transexual woman and my name keep coming up. (That was the bad, who has been talking!
). They told me they had a young TG man who wanted some advice, would I be willing to talk to them.
I informed my staff that we may get visits from GD people and to just guide them to me.
An hour later a young (18yr old) very nervous closeted transman arrived in my lab. He was quite taken by the easy going attitude of my staff, both men and women, to me. (They completely accept me and are totally disrespectful in the easy going way that friends are.)
We talked, or rather he did and after a while began to relax and realised that no one cared what gender he was.
As he was leaving one of my guys, a young man of about 25 asked if he wanted a coffee and to get away from all these crazy women. (I told you they were respectful!).
After an hour or so, my staff guy came back. I asked how it went. 'We talked about footy and cars, I thought he may like to talk guy stuff rather than don't worry stuff.'
For some reason I felt rather proud.
