The shape I'm in
Jun. 7th, 2011 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sacredchaoRight, time to be good. My weight has trickled back up to about 67kg which is not disastrous but has resulted in a noticable increase in waist size (up a belt notch)and I want to catch it before 4kg turns into 14. So time to cut the junk food, cut back the alcohol and be more resolute about cycling even on those nasty cold mornings.
I pushed my comfort zone significantly over the weekend as far as personal presentation goes. The wedding was a sealed and safe environment. Making my way from Caulfield North to Brunswick via two trains and a total of about 4-5km walking dressed in a skirt is not. Most of the people at the friend's place I was going to knew I was going to be there but didn't know me, that is, they knew a transwoman was going to be there. Gratifyingly, nobody immediately picked me as trans (until I opened my mouth and spoke, I'm guessing). Nor did I notice any odd looks on the train. I'm starting to feel an awful lot more comfortable about this and very much liking the feeling of being recognised as female. Now to work out where and with who I feel comfortable and reasonable doing this.
I had a therapy session on Saturday and asked about the timeline for the legal change of gender. It seems that in this state, that requires gender reassignment surgery. It also requires that I have been living full time as a woman for at least 12 months. This does mean living as a woman with the legal status of a man which could make negotiation of the process interesting in some contexts, notably at work. More crucially, it also appears that the surgery is not something which happens in any way under the aegis of public health and that even if I get the appropriate health insurance and wait the requisite 12 months I'm still personally going to be $10k-20k out of pocket on top of the $200/month that the required level of cover is going to cost me. At the moment I can think of only one way to raise that sort fo money and that's a complicated thing on several levels.
I'm going to make this work...I have to make this work. The details though...
I pushed my comfort zone significantly over the weekend as far as personal presentation goes. The wedding was a sealed and safe environment. Making my way from Caulfield North to Brunswick via two trains and a total of about 4-5km walking dressed in a skirt is not. Most of the people at the friend's place I was going to knew I was going to be there but didn't know me, that is, they knew a transwoman was going to be there. Gratifyingly, nobody immediately picked me as trans (until I opened my mouth and spoke, I'm guessing). Nor did I notice any odd looks on the train. I'm starting to feel an awful lot more comfortable about this and very much liking the feeling of being recognised as female. Now to work out where and with who I feel comfortable and reasonable doing this.
I had a therapy session on Saturday and asked about the timeline for the legal change of gender. It seems that in this state, that requires gender reassignment surgery. It also requires that I have been living full time as a woman for at least 12 months. This does mean living as a woman with the legal status of a man which could make negotiation of the process interesting in some contexts, notably at work. More crucially, it also appears that the surgery is not something which happens in any way under the aegis of public health and that even if I get the appropriate health insurance and wait the requisite 12 months I'm still personally going to be $10k-20k out of pocket on top of the $200/month that the required level of cover is going to cost me. At the moment I can think of only one way to raise that sort fo money and that's a complicated thing on several levels.
I'm going to make this work...I have to make this work. The details though...
