Quote from: Tessa James on February 08, 2015, 01:36:19 PM
I believe the option to have an avatar comes after you have made 15 posts here.
That is very cool about your in-laws to be. I wonder if that is part of not knowing you as long as your own family? It has been much more challenging for the friends and family who have known me a long time while the people I meet now accept me readily as Tessa.
Shopping is way fun as a girl! I couldn't have cared less about my guy clothes but uh la la the things we can wear as girls/women.
The job deal can be discouraging but depending on where you live there are laws protecting us. That does not change every bigoted heart, of course, and it does take some commitment and strength to go full time on the job. I admire anyone who can do it.
15 posts. Ah. Well, that shouldn't take long, I'm a chatty kathy!
I do wonder sometimes if it's because they haven't known me as long, but I know my parents, and between my mother's conservative christian mindset and my father's "men should be manly" way of thinking, I do have to wonder...oh, when my FtM brother finally comes out to them, they are going to hit the roof!
I can't wait for the shopping to really go full swing...right now, I "man shop" - I go in, get what I need, ring it up, and blam, I'm out the door...but that's because the last time I got caught looking at women's clothing at walmart, security threw me out for "unnerving female shoppers"...like, really? You're going to skip "might be shopping for his wife/girlfriend" and go straight to "being creepy"? But then, that's what happens when you're trans in Alabama.
As far as legal protection, Kentucky is a "fire at will" state. HR makes up an official-sounding reason to tell you and then you find out from former coworkers later that it was something lawsuit-worthy, but by then it's too late to do anything about it.
