On Trans Organizations and The Meteoric Rise Phenomenon
Filed by dentedbluemercedes
September 9, 2010
http://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/on-trans-organizations-and-the-meteoric-rise-phenomenon/When I first started doing trans advocacy, one of the first non-real-time projects I started was an information repository for advice on transition, and to outline the relevant laws and processes in the province of Alberta. When I finally got to buying a domain for the website, I'd purchased
albertatrans.org, sort of thinking that I'd like to grow it into a functioning organization someday. You don't have to be a registered organization to get a .org domain, I never presented myself as such (and clarified any confusion when it came up), but it still gave the impression at times that there was a functioning organization in Alberta that I was part of, and I won't deny that it helped get my foot in some doors. Even so, none of those things developed overnight, and even now, being employed full-time and living in a rural area that limits my involvement in city activities (a conscious decision, to help avoid burnout), there are a lot of things that I would have liked to do that are undone, and a lot of connections I'd have liked to make that are as yet unmade.
