Just thought I'd share two funny, yet confirming experiences I've had lately.
First, I went to the DMV today to get a new license, because the picture looks absolutely nothing like me anymore. It's about 4 years old. Worth mentioning is that my given first male name is gender neutral, like Shannon, Terry, Chris, etc. I wait in a couple of lines, get to lady that takes the pic and gets to keep your old license. I hand her my old license, she looks at it, and without looking up from her computer screen, says "Dear, I need
your license...". I answer, that is mine. She then looks up at me, back at the license, repeats this a few times, then exclaims... "You're a boy!" I was going to say no sh!t Sherlock, but couldn't keep a straight face. Anywho, after her discovery, the only thing I said was: yep I guess I've changed a lot recently, she took my pic and sent me to the other line to pic up the new DL. As I walked over to sit down, I saw her whispering to a co-woker and pointing over to where I was sitting... her co-woker looked equally shocked. The best part of everything though was this was the fastest DMV visit ever. I was in and out in 15 minutes. That had to be a world record.
Second encounter, I went to a new doc to get my pre-op SRS tests done (X-Rays, blood, EKG, etc.) My normal primary care doc does not do these sort of tests in his office, so he sends me to a local clinic to have the testing done there. Fun... new people that I don't know and don't want to share with. Cool! Anywho, long story short, I walkin fill out the paperwork, check the "Male" box on everything... again remember, gender neutral first name here... I'm asked to strip down to my underwear (glad I decided to go with a matching bra/panty set today
)... and wait for the doc. I can hear thru the door, the nurse explaining to the doc as to what I'm there for. SRS Pre-op testing. The doc asks the nurse what does "SRS mean"? She explained it to him. Doc walks in, takes one look at me standing there in my underwear, and the first question out if his mouth was, "Are you a boy or a girl?" I told him, if you can't figure it out by the end of the exam, I'm not going to tell you. His face turned super bright red, he started stuttering, and was obviously very embarassed. After I explained everything, he was cool about it and said I was the first trans-person he ever met. He said he had only read about it in books. Well, I said we are real and we do exist.
I guess this HRT stuff does work.
