Transgender Transition Tipping-point

Ooops!

If you've been reading the blog, you probably saw the comments that I made back in January about how a bit of over-tweezing led to people acting differently around me (but not vocalizing anything). Apparently... I tweezed a bit more than before (over the weekend) and found the point where people WILL vocalize.

Personally, I don't think there is a major difference between January and now (see the pic to the right -- OK... They ARE a bit thinner but... ).

Monday, a female co-worker said something about me looking different. I tried to pass it off as just being clean-shaven, but then she began staring at my eyebrows and made the comment, "I wouldn't say that to other people". Was she thinking that I meant I shaved my eyebrows?

She went on to imply that our conservative Boston area clients would think of me as a freak. She couldn't have been more wrong. Our clients didn't look at me any differently. They all still came to talk to me warmly and with respect. Considering the fact that I go above and beyond what most of my co-workers do for them, even if I was I wearing a dress... it wouldn't matter to them. They'd still respect me for who I really am.

Tuesday, I went to the bathroom, making myself 4 minutes late for a departmental meeting. When arrived and sat down with 3 other female co-workers, one turned to me and said, "We were wondering what was taking you so long in the bathroom... We thought you may have been shaving or tweezing something!" Yeah pretty blatant comment... and then they all smirked and laughed.

I didn't let it phase me... I just laughed along with them... or was I just laughing AT them? After all, I was brave enough to push across a line that I was previously fearful of crossing -- to show my true feminine self in such a conservative position -- so considering that the clients are cool with it and the only repercussions were a bit of snickering from shallow people who have no idea what a transgender is (they probably just think I'm gay now but I don't really care about that either), as long as I'm free to be me, I'm OK with everything else.

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Transgender Transition - Pressing Issues?

OK... This is kind of weird...

I've accepted the looks and comments (and stood up for myself and others when those comments were cruel)... but... what do you do when another female just randomly presses your body parts to see "what's going on"?

I still need to fake the guy role at times, but as my looks, breasts and bum are obviously becoming more feminine, it is creating a strange curiosity for some. A female co-worker recently walked by me at work and grabbed my breast, then kept on walking (without saying a word). Several days later, the same woman began pressing my bum... not in a groping way (unfortunately), but more of a "is this real" type of way.

If my transition is becoming that much of a curiosity, then why not ask me if... I don't know... I guess it would have been more weird if she randomly asked, "So why are your boobs getting so perky?".

I'm not offended at all. In fact, it's encouraged me to push forward with more transitioning, including laser hair removal. Androgyny is more tolerated than hairy guys with breasts and getting rid of the unwanted hair would do wonders for my own piece of mind as well.

I took the pics to the right this morning -- with no make-up, bra or padding -- to see if my boobs -- or I -- look like an oddity.

Oddity or not... I like the way I look!