It's looking more and more like I'm going to have to evict the person renting my house. I'll need to make two appearances in the court, one to file the petition for possession of the property, and one for a hearing in front of a judge to evict the tenant.
All this stuff (the renter, problems with them, etc.) started before I was out to *anyone*. Now I absolutely don't give a crap what the renter thinks - he's a d-bag and this'll be the third suit I've filed on him, and this time, I ain't settling. He's history unless he gets me money before I file the suit.
On the one hand, my preference would be to show up presenting as female, and even though I'd have to use my legal name (haven't changed it yet - it's still early days...), I'd feel a lot more comfortable at the proceedings.
On the other hand, this could prove to be a distraction on what is otherwise a pretty straightforward case. (He's been late paying the rent - a LOT. I've had to file suit on him two other times because of this. We're done here - we want the house back, he can go find someplace else to live.)
I'll ask my lawyer about it - I'm not out to him yet either, there just hasn't been a need yet, but I guess there is now.
- OR -
I can just suck it up, and put on the guy mask for a few more hours. I hate this. I'm not totally sure I CAN do it. (I'd better be able to - I have to do it for my son's wedding in a few weeks.) I don't want to do it - but I also don't want to give this d-bag tenant and his sleaze lawyer any wiggle room with the judge. (It's a JP court.)
Part of me wants to prove I can do this as a woman, since I'm fulltime now. Another part of me thinks it isn't worth jeopardizing a really simple case against this peckerhead to prove a point to myself.
I dunno, what do y'all think? What would you do?