strike

Third time so far I was explicitly harassed by people in broad daylight where it can be cleanly attributed to transphobia rather than anything else. On a large public square, two teenagers with pig-like features prodded my attention to take headphones off, then spoke to me in the local language. I responded twice in English that I don’t understand, then went away. Could understand enough, something about mother and father, something about trannies. I felt unsafe, even with other people around, and that lack of safety in a physical sense angers and saddens me. And of course, I am mostly sad and bitter that random strangers clock me as trans.

I didn’t set out expecting to “pass“ as cis and still do not. Yet I want to. I’ll note  that less than 8 months HRT is only partial puberty. No-one can tell where this goes but of course I have hopes. More to the point, I have a will to act. I’ll get as far as I can.

Later an old woman smiled some at me. That made me feel a little better.