Had a blast last weekend spending virtually the whole day as Ceera at the Austin Pride Festival, and later that night at the Women's Pride Party - a mostly lesbian gathering where I was made to feel quite welcome. I think I present fairly well now, and I'm comfortable around strangers as a girl, interacting with them and chatting with them. But it's still certainly easy enough for them to realize I'm not a genetic girl. As I was talking with some of the ladies about finding my feminine side and getting out more often as a girl, I ran into an interesting situation. Several of them immediately assumed that if I want to present as a girl at all, I'm in it for the full transition! They quite accepted my girl side, but it was clear from their comments that they assumed I would be starting to live full time as a girl, now that I had found this side of me.
In my case, I'm gender fluid. I like expressing both sides, and while I certainly am going to spend more time as Ceera, I don't see my male side ever going away. It's a bit hard to get that across sometimes. Have any of you ever run into that? People who accept that you're TG, but assume that it's the same thing as full-on TS?