I signed a petition on Sunday and realized I hadn't changed my name on my voter registration. So today I went to the courthouse. The woman in the clerk's office recognized me from when I changed the name on my car registration. We chatted happily a bit, but I had to go to another office to change my voter registration.
As the clerk in the other office was entering my information on the form, we talked about various things, making the routine a happy task with our chatter. She asked if she should change my gender. I explained that in our state I was still considered male because I hadn't had surgery yet, that other states did it differently, but that was the criterion for our state. She said she'd just leave the gender blank and I could call her when I got it straightened out. We chatted some more about some local gossip as she finished up. When I was ready to leave she said "congratulations" and shook my hand.
Most of my life I was a quiet, shyly friendly introvert, reluctant to make myself noticeable in any way. Now I am a happy, chatty, frisky extrovert, unconcerned about being noticed, and with the capacity for being annoyingly bubbly. I had hoped I would be more settled as Katherine, but I never expected my personality to change this much.
Life is (mostly) wonderful when you can finally be your true self.
Being annoyingly bubbly,
Kate
