Phase 1 of my #GenderQuest is complete. I have realized I am a woman, contrary to what I believed for 56 years and change. For now, I'm sticking with my the name I've gone by all my life, "Pat," as perhaps the most androgynous (shortened) given name in the English-speaking Western world.

This toot is the first public component of my transition.

No element of medical transition can or will ever happen due to my physical health, even aside from other barriers, and that's fine.

I don't yet know where GenderQuest will go from here. Presentation, shapewear, name and/or pronouns in different settings, I just don't know. I'll probably start shaving my face for the first time in over twenty years.

But I don't have to know. This is good for now.

Thank you all my friends for your support, to date and ongoing.

#Transgender #Transition #Transwoman #GenderIdentity #Hatching #Hatchling #Hatched

Jalan suggested thinking of how we celebrate.

I remembered that one grocery store we use has what they market as a "Celebration Cake," which has amused me for years, because under the white frosting it's layered in #TransPride colors.

In another topic that amuses me, my transition conveniently has no implications for how I think of my sexual orientation. #AcePride

#GenderQuest

Just told Dragonlet.

Their coming out to us as nonbinary in December (8 at the time) had a lot to do with me re-examining my own gender.

For now, I've left it up to them if they want to keep calling me "Daddy," or try something else. I love their calling me that, and I don't need it to change now. I did say I might feel differently as all of this settles in, but for now its their choice.

Hashtags follow:

#GenderQuest #GenderTransition #QueerParenting

Message from Jalan just now:

"So, my wife. Are you coming to bed?"

squee

#GenderQuest #GenderEuphoria

That's likely my first use of "squee" online.

Didn't even have to think about it. 😆