Thank you Laurie.

I’m a trans-woman who transitioned in 1993 San Diego. I’ve been living in Greenville NC for twenty years now.

I was a “girlie-boy" from birth, as best I recall. I can remember my parents “explaining” to me, on several occasions, why, “you know you’re a boy. We’ve talked about this!”

It was very confusing as I knew who I was and felt perfectly normal, natural.

I had no problem with who I was…until other people drilled into me how utterly “wrong” I was.

In the last 28+ years, aside from the reproductive travails, I’ve been contending with all of the misogyny, sexual harrassment and rape, both by intimidation and violence, that every woman knows all too intimately.

I’ve had some truly bizarre experiences, such as when a young man, who knew me 'before' and who, at that time, accepted a lower place on the male-hierarchy to me, mansplained to me for a good ten minutes, then, when I had gone, joked with my neighbor about how I was “still a man and could never change that.”

When I announced to my AA group that I was trans, at a speaker meeting, telling my story, things began to change…

I’m running on, sorry…

I absolutely love your writing ❤️🙏🏼

--weezi--💖🙏🏼💜🙏🏼🦄🥳🥰