First of all, we are talking about my "kid" who happens to be 35 and a mother of three. For those of you who happen to be new to Cyrsti's Condo, my daughter is incredibly supportive and in fact my MtF transition has made us closer.
Recently though, she has been pretty quiet about receiving a "transition" update. I knew her life was incredibly full with her family so I let her come to me. At a recent breakfast. I could see the wheels turning in her noggin, so I knew it was time.
Coming up in June is my grand daughter's
Bat Mitzva. If you don't know, it's the female Jewish equivalent of her coming of age ceremony. The group of people attending will be incredibly diverse, religiously and politically. An example is I was baptized Methodist, became involved with Buddhism in Thailand when I was there and now am evolving into more of an earth based spiritualism. I guarantee you, most of the people there
won't want to talk religion with me, and they shouldn't. Nor, should they be distracted by my appearance anymore than I can help it. As I have written many times, my HRT is transforming me into an androgynous person at the least and there will be a group of radical right wingers attending. Of course I can tie all this hair I have back into a pony tail and look for an xxl very loose shirt of some sort to hide my breasts but my skin gives me away too. My only consideration is, it is my grand daughter's day and I don't need to be a distraction
at all. I don't think my daughter really cared but just needed to know what to expect.
Issue two with her was bouncing the name change off her and what goes on with the process of gender markers. She liked the idea of changing my name to Jessie but unfortunately had never gotten to meet or know my grandfather who I'm "adopting" the name from.
The only unfinished business was what were the kids going to call me in the future and when. My only answer to the question was to follow the status quo for awhile. The two oldest kids (12 and 8) know but the six year old doesn't. My suggestion was at some point in the future, it will be time for a sit down with just the three of them and me to "announce" the move. As it stands now, until I can get totally sold out of my old homestead and down to Cincinnati full time, there still are bits and pieces of my old self to deal with-as a guy or even as a cross dresser.
As you can probably tell, breakfast was a total success and she even paid!
Every year in the Philippines, an engineering school has a womanless beauty pageant. Perhaps you have heard of or seen the results of the "Miss Eng" womanless beauty winners. If you have, you know these engineers aren't playing with with designing sexy exotic "women."
