Will You Take Half a Man?
With the recent health family crisis behind me (and yet another laid to rest), it's time to backtrack with all of you here in Cyrsti's Condo about how I fared during a recent coming out with a long time female family member.
To start with she is the "double nickle", 55 years old and was a former "wild child" well into her 30's, married for a short time but for the most part, shopping around. I always had a real respect for her sense of style and femininity. She was a woman who would always make sure she looked her best in case she met a new man at the store.
It's curious now how the tables have changed, and while I don't think they have to for her, that's her call not mine. I believe she has more "charge" remaining in the batteries than she thinks.
Coming out to her was simply a matter of being in the right time at the right place-even though for the wrong reason. (The health crisis with her Mom.) I have written how she took it rather matter of factly, with healthy doses of curiosity.
I am sort of like the dog who has rarely been beat, when it comes to my "Coming Out" experiences. I simply haven't experienced much negativity but then again, I haven't needed to come out to a large group...another story.
So when I came out to her, I just wasn't expecting the shock and awe I have so rarely seen. (Didn't get it again.) So, being the cynical bitch I can be, when she said yesterday she needed a man to come along with her as she worked on tying up the loose ends of her Mom's final expenses, etc. I said, "will a half a man do?" She laughed with me and started back in on the biggest question she has with me being transgender - why am I with a female partner? Don't all transgender women want a man and isn't that one of the reasons we transition? Why would I want to be a woman and not want a man? Another story.
I told her while that is true in the majority of the MtF trans cases it seems, as always, I'm destined to walk a slightly different path which we will discuss here later in Cyrsti's Condo.
To start with she is the "double nickle", 55 years old and was a former "wild child" well into her 30's, married for a short time but for the most part, shopping around. I always had a real respect for her sense of style and femininity. She was a woman who would always make sure she looked her best in case she met a new man at the store.
It's curious now how the tables have changed, and while I don't think they have to for her, that's her call not mine. I believe she has more "charge" remaining in the batteries than she thinks.
Coming out to her was simply a matter of being in the right time at the right place-even though for the wrong reason. (The health crisis with her Mom.) I have written how she took it rather matter of factly, with healthy doses of curiosity.
I am sort of like the dog who has rarely been beat, when it comes to my "Coming Out" experiences. I simply haven't experienced much negativity but then again, I haven't needed to come out to a large group...another story.
So when I came out to her, I just wasn't expecting the shock and awe I have so rarely seen. (Didn't get it again.) So, being the cynical bitch I can be, when she said yesterday she needed a man to come along with her as she worked on tying up the loose ends of her Mom's final expenses, etc. I said, "will a half a man do?" She laughed with me and started back in on the biggest question she has with me being transgender - why am I with a female partner? Don't all transgender women want a man and isn't that one of the reasons we transition? Why would I want to be a woman and not want a man? Another story.
I told her while that is true in the majority of the MtF trans cases it seems, as always, I'm destined to walk a slightly different path which we will discuss here later in Cyrsti's Condo.
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