tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660678298911292584.post5904017184737403878..comments2021-03-06T22:08:01.179+01:00Comments on Sophia´s Choices: A difference in timingSophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08776623935042983118noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660678298911292584.post-66365711790638333032010-04-05T19:48:37.777+02:002010-04-05T19:48:37.777+02:00The problem is that 95% of my waking life is in my...The problem is that 95% of my waking life is in my place : think down-market left bank cafe kind of thing. And the immediate environment is one of the most trans friendly on the planet.<br />That doesn't stop occasional street confrontations and if a local can't quite work you out , they are only too entitled to stare at you from a few feet away, but if I hear someone shout at me, it's far likely to be a friend. My health and vanishing testosterone muscles leave me hugely vulnerable though. I get vastly paranoid trying to organize travel to the UK for part of my medical stuff. Any infection can be serious and a couple of punches to the stomach would be potentially fatal.<br />But with the people in my place ? Of newcomers a very few don't stay around but for most I'm exoticised if I'm noticed.<br />Then they're the people who are regulars and friends, maybe about 100, and, sure, I get compliments there, after all they're very much a part of my transition schooling.And it's very much of a girl thing so...<br />On another level men sometimes compliment me on being brave, and women on being inspiring. The first I find mistaken, but accept the latter in that it's usually part of a mutual exchange of inspiration.Sophiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08776623935042983118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660678298911292584.post-88130628473934300122010-04-04T17:29:55.296+02:002010-04-04T17:29:55.296+02:00Do you get many compliments? In my town i get far ...Do you get many compliments? In my town i get far more positive responses to my genderqueer expression than negative.<br /><br />But its very confronting when the negative does occur.. i took enough punches for being Goth and what effeminacy slipped through my repression in the past back before my disability was bad enough to make running or self-defence a problem I don't really want to have to test my current situation.Battybattybatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18030389503526882755noreply@blogger.com