I just finished watching "The Santa Clause 2" -- The Mrs. Claus. For those of you who may have trouble recalling the trope for this movie, Tim Allen's character needs to get married or give up being Santa Claus.

In the midst of the movie, I suddenly identified with Tim Allen's Character. The story line has him going off to seek a bride. He finds a woman he'd like to marry and courts her. Then, he has to come out to her about being Santa Claus. As he's stumbling around trying to find the words to tell her... I suddenly saw the parallel between his situation and mine and that of most of my sisters here on BCTS.

I think he had a more difficult task than we did (do). At least when we come out we are talking about something that's know, even if not accepted. By now the world knows that transgender exists, even if their understanding of it is badly misconstrued. But poor Santa, is there coming out as being a mythical character...

My coming out was not voluntary... that is, my wife found out by catching me in her clothes. That would have been in 1969. The term "transgender" was coined in 1965 and wasn't really in popular use, even among the trans community, until the mid 70s. So I had a hard time trying to explain to my wife just why I felt the need to dress in women's clothes. So I found myself in a similar situation as Santa. I was trying to explain the unexplainable.

Just found it odd to feel a TG connection in a non-TG movie.