My sincerest apologies to 'Lucky Ball and Chain'.

Yes yes, 1000 times yes. Access is hard to come by, and even if you do get it, the chances that the doc is both willing to do well by you and informed enough to do so are effectively nil.

Because I am a lady of a certain age, "In the Car" is also particularly resonant with me, though just through the lens of when I was a teenager.

And because the arc of my life has had a particularly weird bend, I've done everything mentioned in their song "Never is Enough"

This all ends with me having to expalin to my wife why my browser history contains videos of flightless birds shitting, doesn't it?

As much as today is about normalizing our existence to a hostile world, selfishly, it makes me feel less alone. Running into folks that have similar experiences, at least on this one axis, is incredibly uplifting, even when we barely speak to each other if at all.

Thanks for being out there.

I once had a young lady run up to me at a conference and say "Holy shit, we get to be old." First of all, what a bitch, but yeah, we get to be old and anything we damn well please. I don't know how to engage with trans people I don't know, but I know "not like that"

This weekend, I went to buy a couple of sodas as a treat for my wife and I. There was a trans guy working the register, I knew because of the pins he had on. The fucking balls on that guy, doesn't he know where we are? Still, he was sweet, and I didn't know how to act because I'm fucking awkward.

How do you tell someone their boobs are lopsided? I didn't know then, I don't know now, but I still think about that girl, how she put herself out there, and how that more than anything was a turning point in my coming out. If she could have that courage, then fuck it so could I.

Second, what the hell is this day anyway? Let me tell you a couple of stories.

I wasn't out 5 years ago. I knew, but I didn't know what to do or how to tell people. I was buying beer, and a freshly minted trans gal was working the till. She'd stuffed her bra, and her tits were uneven.

Ope! And now the old man is chatting up the young boy who was playing video game medleys. We're like 30 seconds away from a lifetime movie here.