{"id":51,"date":"2014-09-23T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/ait\/?p=51"},"modified":"2018-02-21T22:34:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T02:34:48","slug":"new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/possiblegirl.com\/sotheresthat\/new-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1: New Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve been dealing with gender identity for most of my life.<\/span><\/div>\n
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It feels so freeing to say that now.<\/span><\/div>\n
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It was 40 years ago, literally, that I crossdressed for the first time.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I was eight years old and tried on a cute little dress in the basement of a local thrift shop.<\/span><\/div>\n
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And it made me feel so… alive. Almost electric.<\/span><\/div>\n
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But I’ve hidden that part of me from the world, purged it, denied it — if it’s a stage of death and dying — I’ve done it.<\/span><\/div>\n
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So in the past week I decided this is no longer tolerable.<\/span><\/div>\n
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To quote All That Jazz\u00a0<\/i>(and Dr.\u00a0K\u00fcbler-Ross on the final stage of\u00a0death and dying), “I accept!”<\/span><\/div>\n
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I am transgendered, hear me roar… and I’ll be damned if I’m going to be ashamed of it anymore.<\/span><\/div>\n
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So I bit the bullet and made two appointments for this week. One with a gender specialist and a second with a hair stylist to get my hair cut in a more feminine style (finally!).<\/span><\/div>\n
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I am so excited right now.I’m sure the fear will creep in, but right now, I am stupid, giggly happy.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Note: When I began transitioning in 2014, I was known by my nickname DiG, which sufficed until I learned my mom had chosen Jennifer had my birth gone differently. So for historical sake, I leave my posts and podcasts as originally conceived, but know that my name is and apparently always was Jen.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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