Trans and Crossdressers in the real world
How many people here regularly, or even occasionally, see other crossdressers, or trans people out and about in the real world? Here I don't mean in pubs, clubs, groups and places like that. What I mean is essentially during the day, doing the normal things that any person does when out and about. As I've said here before I'm a fully out, socially transitioned person and have been for years now, and yes, from time to time, I see others like me out and about. I take the view that trans visability (yes, I know that many here are CD and would not call themselves trans, and I respect that, but I'm using the term here specifically as a coverall for those presenting the real world in a gender not assigned at birth (I don't want this thread to descend into a debate about what CD is and what trans is and labels and all of that. This is about people seen in the real world)), I take the view that trans visability is a good thing as it normalises the trans community.
Anyway, this weekend I was out in our local town and went into a bookshop. When I went in there were two of us in the shop, me and the person whose shop it was (not trans). A couple of minutes later a second person came in. They were a trans person too. Then, a couple of minutes later another trans person came into the shop. This person was, as we all were unconnected with anyone else in the shop. This meant that there were four people in the shop and three of us were trans. No, there wasn't any kind of convention or anything like that. This was a normal Saturday afternoon in the local town. And, to end everything off, a little later I went into a charity shop to see if they had any bargains (they didn't, :( ), but the person behind the till there was also a trans person. I thought this was teriffic, (at least) four trans people out and about in the real world, in the same town centre, on the same Saturday afternoon. Long live trans visibility :)
