I've had a busy few weeks. I am catching up on posts over the day. Life is unapologetically hectic. Being honest with myself I love it. No secret.
A quick or not so quick update--
The 'First Event' conference starts late this week. I consider last year's the real opening act of my transition. I regret my blog post from a year ago is lost into the New Year blog dust. Night and day over the year. Everything is different-- how I wear clothes, no more 'clown' makeup, the lady's room is not a mystery. Most important to me is I have multiple friends and friend groups to catch up with. Tranition is more fun with friends.
Health insurance did lose a round, for all intensive purposes anyway. The don't like me, I don't like them. Although I do like my current concierge. I feel sorry for her on some level. Once in a while, this week included, I ask something that forces her to say "I am instructed not to answer that question." Which is warped (and I've figured out easily circumvented). Next battle looming is bottom surgery criteria. I mean my insurance requires one year full time (not the latest WPATH SOC 8 six months). I argue the only meaningful thing to be found out between now and May is 'can I pull together a spring wardrobe'?
Sunday morning yoga's has turned into one of the more fun transition things. The class is super-relaxed. I get a good stretch in. I get a boatload of mindfullness. I am invited to the post-class ladies coffee. Which is pretty sweet considering I stopped wearing my wig a few months back. It was a distraction.
I am a co-lead of the trans and gender diverse DEI space at work. The company is large enough so I have both a sizeable number of people who identify as GD and parents. I've been working with the rainbow parent space to start what we're going to call "connections". We're trying to figure out how to connect parents of trans/NB kids with other parents, focusing on 'new' parents. Like mentorship, just a slightly different focus. stay tuned.
Finally-- I've more or less decided I can do the gran fondo new york in may. 85 miles on a bike, starting on the George Washington Bridge looping through NJ and NY. Its an investment in time with a lot of opportunity to improve as a cyclist. There is a mental component to it, like any long distance thing. I figure anyone actively in transition ought to be mentally tough enough.
A good place to stop. thanks for reading.
~Jenn
