In the head

[Teresa]

Helen,
As you know I've been pushing very hard . I lay in bed last night and questioned how I had the courage to go back to my old home town and face a whole room full of people who knew me a from my male side . The biggy before that was possibly finding the courage with two others from my social group to face a full lecture theatre of NHS representatives to talk about our experiences with the NHS as TGs and yes we were dressed . Personally the changing room has been a big eye opener I guess trying on a swimsuit and then walking out of the changing room into the retail area to find the SA , I found three along with a few customers . It begs the question standing like that did I pass or not and then a lady told me she wished she looked like me when I re entered the changing area .

I haven't done the public transport thing yet but can't see it being a problem , and I've done the makeup check twice now and had no problems as you may have seen from a picture I posted a while ago .

I guess the other really good thing is meeting my daughter and son in law with the granddaughter , that probably rates as the most important thing personally .

There are so many others I could tick off like donating blood dressed , seeing my doctor dressed . Going to the cinema in my old home town .

As I said in another thread Marcelle ( Isha ) called it social transition , she did it in stages and gave us the reports as she progressed to finally re enter the Canadian army as a registered female .

I guess the great thing is I don't have any negatives to recall , I agree with Kandi , the more we do it the less we have any problems . I think the important thing is stop looking for reactions , if you don't look for them you won't usually get them . I know I walked past people I recognised in my old home town last Sunday but I was dressed as a woman which they would never have expected. This is what I found when I entered the Art Centre no one spoke to me because they didn't recognise me .