I am already finding my life as a woman. In most places, I am just a woman. As I go on, I feel a sense of detachment from the community and I think a lot of it is because I have almost been ejected from it due to how I look and many of my life experiences being so different. I post much less on Susans and I have regularly missed support group meetings, which are more to keep in check with what's going on. I went to pride this last weekend, but not as a TS, but because I was in a lesbian relationship. Many of my interests have nothing directly to do with being female, but focus more on what I like doing.
This past weekend I worked on my car and replaced the power steering pump. I was just a chick who knew how to work on her car. If anything, people considered it impressive, whereas before transition it wasn't unusual. I've been getting into sewing as well. As a girl, there's not really anything out of the ordinary with that. Personally, I don't like working on my car, but it does save a BUNCH of money doing it myself. So I can turn a several hundred dollar repair into something that costs less than $50 and that's the only reason I do work on it. In fact, I've done all major repairs so far myself.
I've only had tire, brake, oil, and battery work done by shops.
My point is, I just focus on life and forget about gender issues much of the time. Of course I can't help but stop every once in a while and smile about how right and how nice it is to just be a girl.
