It Was A Very Good Year

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The talking heads can't wait to put 2020 in their rearview mirrors.

Hold on!

In many ways it was the Titanic of years. But to me it represented wish fulfillment.

I'm a frustrated transwoman who for many reasons has never found the door to my closet. 2020 - the year of isolation and the delivery man - allowed me the opportunity to live fully feminine 24/7.

Without the fear of unannounced visitors, I happily expressed my true self day after day. Once it became socially acceptable to cover the camera for Zoom meetings I rarely had a need for male clothing.

A few days ago, my spouse stated that she had never seen me so happy so often.

I wish Covid had never entered our lives. But I can't say it has been all bad for me.

Jill

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Yep

Being 30+ years post transition I cannot sit on that as a silver lining but it shows we take what we can get in life.

For me, it has been a Betty Davis "Fasten your seatbelts it's going to be a bumpy night."

Substituting 'year' for 'night' of course.

I have a real life to go back to hopefully so am hopeful the vaccine works out, giving long enough lasting protection that only boosters are necessary.

I can live with 6 month boosters if that is necessary.

Cross your fingers people.

There is that

Patricia Marie Allen's picture

I can relate to that. Several years ago, I began weeding out male clothing from my wardrobe in favor of women's clothing that could be mistaken for men's. There's really not that much difference in the appearance, to the casual observer, between men's and women's jeans and slacks. If you stick to loafers, the same goes for shoes. Trouser socks will easily pass for men's dress socks. I have three women's oxford shirts in solid colors (specifically Big Shirts from Woman Within) I wear them with women's slacks that I bought from Sears or J. C. Penney. All with appropriate lingerie underneath.

With the jeans, I wear women's Polo shirts, again from Woman Within. The fact the button placket has the buttons on the distaff side goes unnoticed by the aforementioned casual observer.

All this allows me to dress like other women my age and yet appear masculine to that same observer. I wear the dressier clothes to church, and the more casual the rest of the time, even on my part time job driving school bus. I've also let my hair grow out. For church, I wear it in a high ponytail, the rest of the time I pull it back to the crown of my head and gather it with a plain 2" barrette. (Mind you, I live in liberal Oregon so that may make it easier for folks to ignore what I'm doing.)

When I go shopping I most often substitute a very feminine top and more feminine shoes. Since I've grown my hair long, a little mascara and a touch of lipstick and the barrette more feminine. With that, I'm dressed as feminine as the the next woman in line at the register.

Hugs
Patricia

Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann

It sounds like you definitely.......

D. Eden's picture

Found a silver lining in this cloudy year. I’m happy for you - at least some good came out of the tragedy that we are living through.

D. Eden

Dum Vivimus, Vivamus