what was your most embarassing transition moment?

[YellowDaisy]

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[Janet_Girl]

For me it had to be when a neighbor, who I also worked with, knocked on my door.  I open the door without looking and there stood Shelia.  I was full dressed as was my habit when not working.  I said "Hi" and she said "Hi".  She asked me if I could watch her cats as she was going to go see her boyfriend in Arizona for a week.  I agree and then said "As you can see I am making changes".  She said "You look good".  Then she asked what my new name was and I told her "Janet".  She replied "Thank You Janet".  And that was then end of that.

I went back inside and had an OMG breakdown moment.  She saw me several times after that till she moved to Arizona to marry her boyfriend.  And she even gave my a bunch of cute clothes . that I still have, which she could not use.



Hugs and Love
Janet

[rejennyrated]

It a long time ago now but I think mine was probably aged about eight or nine when I was at co-ed school and I first went in wearing a kilt (skirt). I had got my mother to negotiate with the school to be allowed to do it on the spurious pretext that I was part Scottish. The school (Windlesham House) was and is a very progressive private school in the UK. This was in the 1960's but it is still known to be one of the best junior schools in the country.

Of course my classmates saw through my ruse instantly and one of them instantly asked "So are you a boy or a girl then?" To which I quickly replied "I'm a girl in disguise." Which made them all laugh - and from then on it was ok.

Though I didn't understand the enormity of what I had done I had in effect come out to the whole school aged just eight. From that day on no one batted an eyelid when I went to ballet lessons or took domestic science and sewing classes. I was thought to be very odd... but they kind of just got used to me and with very few exceptions amazingly no one gave me any trouble.

[Cindy]

I was looking after my wife who is disabled. I was cooking dinner. My two sister in laws and their husbands walked through the front door. I've been out to my wife our whole marriage. My in laws didn't know.
I was told I looked gorgeous, the two guys drank beer and didn't say anything, turned the TV on and watched sports chatting to themselves. I made extra food and we had a good night. Now. No problems. Totally accepted.


But Goddess did I tremble. I shook like a leaf in a tumble dryer.
I was so embarrassed. I was so happy at the same time.

Cindy

[Northern Jane]

I really had to think about this because I couldn't remember anything embarrassing, not in a bad way.

A long time ago I went away to college and wanted to forget about all the GID stuff. Of course I had to initially register under my boy's name since that was what was on my high school records. The college was technical, business, and nursing - I was in technology. Of course one of the first things I had to do was find a place to live so I took some numbers off the bulletin board and got the first room & board I stopped at, living with the a widow lady. When my classmates asked me where I was boarding and I told them, they said "She only rents to girls!" Oh. Apparently I still wasn't able to pass for a boy 

I was so naive as a teenager I seemed to constantly be getting myself in trouble! At about 16 I was out (en femme) with a bunch of my girlfriends and we were club hopping. At one club there seemed to be a few guys who were really being sweet to me and hanging at our table ('cause I didn't dance). Eventually my girlfriends dragged me away and I asked why, I said I was having fun! They explained that those guys who were being so nice to me were all after one thing ...... Oh! Maybe I needed to be rescued after all.

[Steph2003]

I'm starting the process, but I am not there yet.  But my biggest "scare" was when I was 18 and I had a sister in a catholic high school. 

I put on her high school uniform (except for the shoes – her feet were smaller) and then fell asleep on her bed completely en-femme.  She came home and called out my name and woke me up and I had to hide under her bed for over hour in her clothes until she left!

Steph

[Robin_p]

Mines was when i left my purse and the woman that found it gave me a lecture for like ten minutes, why you dont leave your purse on a chair in a restaurant, while holding my purse.

[maidenprincess]

Hiding the stubble growth while I doing laser at the same time learning makeup.  I know I looked really funny with caked on foundation and eyeshadow all around my eye!  Alhamdulillah (Thank God) I was able to learn how to do it all properly (and my beard hair is all gone!)

One embarrassing thing I deal with now is despite my completely female voice, sometimes it cracks into a very deep sound very quickly.  It's so embarrassing and I try to pass it off but it's too awkward.  Ugh.  I can't even help it though.  Just have to deal with it.  alhamdulillah it only happens rarely.  But when it does the affect is felt. :/

[Hannah]

It was earlier today, as I was getting ready to go to this poetry thing. I'd wrangled myself into a nice skirt and all the stuff that goes with them, and had just stripped off the sportsbra I usually lounge around in to put a proper one on...when *crash* down comes the blind and there stands my neighbor out in her yard.


Either that or the night before when I took an extremely close up picture of my face under the Ambien influence and sent it to random people, including one full fledged IM conversation.

Yeah it's been some week that's for sure.

[Cindy]

Heee Heee Becca

Remember the Life of Brian movie?  Brian pulls open the curtains in the morning totally naked. A massive crowd is waiting outside

Have to make Life of Becca as the sequel.

Hugs Hon

Cindy

[Keroppi]

Living with dad away from home due to work reason. Sharing a small bedroom with another person so is "living out of a suitcase". Have a lot of my female clothes in a suitcase. Gone out en femme and had a great morning getting Miss and all that. Came back and discovered dad had retrieved the suitcase to use for our trip aboard to a family wedding the next day.

Dad: Are all this stuff mums?
Me: Um no.... some of it is mine.....
Dad: But it's all woman's stuff.
Dad: (Having spoken to on phone and asked her about it before I got back) Mum said to take back what's her when we go back home tonight.
Me: Okay....
....
Dad: Are they all yours?
Me: No.....

[K8]

During actual transition, I can't think of anything.  Maybe I'm just insensitive.

Before transition, though, I remember one time when I was out to my wife and a couple of gay friends and no one else. 

I had put new energy-efficient windows in my house.  My neighbor across the street told me they were very reflective and he could never see in.  I kept my women's clothes in the front bedroom closet.  Then one day, dressed only in a bra and half-slip, I noticed a pickup rounding the corner and almost running into the parked cars as the driver stared at me.  I pulled the curtains after that.

- Kate

[Dawn D.]

It was Halloween 1978. I was in the US Air Force. I had been invited to a Halloween party and wanted to go as Mork from Ork. Remember that show (your too old if you do, lol).I had a helmet and a shirt that would work, but, the problem was I couldn't find the right kind of pants. So I was telling this to a female friend and she looked me over and said "hey, I have just what you need!" A little embarrassed, I gleefully borrowed them anyway. When I went home to try them on and looked in the mirror, I thought to myself, "oh my. they look pretty damn good!" I always have had very feminine looking legs. And at that time I probably weighed in at 130 lb. Thinking to myself again, "Wow!. I am going to get to wear women's clothes out in the open! And, no one is going to be the wiser!". WRONG!

As soon as I walked through the door to the party, this other girl I knew just stood there with her mouth ajar for a moment. Then she said in front of everybody there (she had a very loud voice), "Don!(that was my name then) Wow! I want to take you home and dress you completely as a girl!!!"

I was so embarrassed, my face turned as red as my shirt! For the rest of the evening, every guy there kept asking me "well, when goin' over to Irene's, hehehe!"

If they only knew "the rest of the story"!


Dawn

[Nigella]

Well, it was last year on holiday. I had been on the beach and decided to explore, little known to me one of my boobs was hanging out as I walked passed a group of youths who was laughing. I didn't know my boob was hanging out so I thought what the heck were they laughing at. Only when I had walked away and looked down did I see. I felt really, really embarrassed and couldn't wait to get back to my hotel. Thank goodness I didn't live there, lol.

Hehe

Stardust