This conference, we had a dinner by the end and I was drunk enough to feel uninhibited and came out as trans to several people on separate occasions. One asked (as my therapist once did) if I was female-to-male. And another two said they had not guessed.

These people have hung out with me all day and heard me give a lecture.

Are they just kind? Or is it actually possible that, weird and impossible as though it seems, I am able to pass for a cis woman now to people not actively looking for someone to clock?

This is weird! Do I dare believe it? Can it be possible, weird as it sounds, that I have some ability now to pass as cis?

This is weird!!!