So, a blog.
I feel like I need an intro, even though the only people reading this are likely to be people who know me pretty well.
I am an about-to-graduate college senior living on the downeast coast of Maine. That's the important thing in my life right now. As to the rest...
Who I am:
- I work with children with autistic spectrum disorders
- I am very politically active, though that's dropped off in the past few years
- I am transgender
- I am a (relatively new) unitarian universalist and I am sort of sickeningly in love with my church
- I don't drink, or smoke, or really do anything that most people think of college students as doing
- I am from Los Angeles and consider getting out of CA, away from my family, and supporting myself entirely (though, not always entirely effectively) one of my biggest accomplishments
- I hate cartoons
- I can deliver a damn good speech in front of 500 people (and have, more than once) but I'm monumentally uncomfortable talking to a group of 10 people I know
- I'm scared of the future. And really, really, really excited about it
So many things I hadn't thought about. The idea that there would be pressure on someone transgendering to male to become "Harley" guy. I love the idea that this is also an opportunity to claim the best in the gender stereotypes.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the commend, Judy. I am glad you're reading and liking what I have to say.
ReplyDeleteJust a small semantics issue - the word transgender is not a verb in base form or present/past participle. It's also not a noun. It's an adjective, just like gay.
I am transitioning to male, not transgendering. I am not "a transgender" I am "a transgender person."