As some of you may remember I've had a fair degree of difficulty getting my father onside. Several terse and even insulting emails have been exchanged since I transitioned in early 2014. But it seems he might finally be coming around to some form of grudging acceptance. He still won't call me Grace but he doesn't call me by my former name either (goes with the generic Australian term "mate", which is often used between men but can still be used between men and women to denote friendship. Weird, I know, but I'm happy to go with that). He recently suggested a social outing for my mother's birthday and asked me to choose where - that lunch went fairly well I thought. We chatted fairly amicably, he's not the greatest conversationalist anyway. He's also agreed to me coming over to their place for Christmas. It's taken about 18 months but it is a definite thaw. Maybe he just realised there was no fighting it, or that I was essentially still the same person. Anyway, it is progress!
