GLBTF: The T is not silent. :)
Oct. 8th, 2008 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lonetreadSo, today was crafts at GLBTF. Everyone made rainbow bracelets and necklaces and you got everything from a-fourth-grader-could-have-made-that to ones that looked good enough to sell, and it was good times. I made two bracelets with the trans flag colors -- decidedly closer to fourth-grader than awesome, but hey -- and since I don't do bracelets (passing > even really awesome jewelry; I'm hardly wearing even my $15 Heroes necklace anymore for that reason), I'm giving one to Caitlin ( ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zerawolfe7) and one to my sister.
Then as I was leaving to go get to work on my lab (lol, I'm on LJ, clearly I self-motivated about as well as could be expected), I mentioned that I guess I couldn't come to the Futures Committee meeting, and so they said, "Wait, let's have the meeting now before you go!" And so Shannon, Kitty, Kali, and I all met and talked about co-ed housing and single rooms and all the pros and cons of trying to get OU to implement a housing policy that's better for trans people than the 1940s segregated-by-legal-sex thing they've got going on. I really feel like we have the opportunity to Make Things Happen, and it's pretty freaking terrific. (Having a one-to-one trans-to-cis ratio in the committee doesn't hurt, either.)
And then afterwards, I'm saying my goodbyes and Kali wants to know if I've started hormones. I say, no, not yet, and she offers to email me info and stuff that she's got that could be useful, and complains that trans people need so much help but at the same time it's so hard to help people who don't want you to know they exist. Trufax, and I'm pretty excited. Self-motivating is not generally my strong suit, as mentioned, and all the technical stuff about getting on T -- endos, therapists' letters, etc, etc -- is just so overwhelming sometimes. I'll take all the help I can get.
zerawolfe7) and one to my sister. Then as I was leaving to go get to work on my lab (lol, I'm on LJ, clearly I self-motivated about as well as could be expected), I mentioned that I guess I couldn't come to the Futures Committee meeting, and so they said, "Wait, let's have the meeting now before you go!" And so Shannon, Kitty, Kali, and I all met and talked about co-ed housing and single rooms and all the pros and cons of trying to get OU to implement a housing policy that's better for trans people than the 1940s segregated-by-legal-sex thing they've got going on. I really feel like we have the opportunity to Make Things Happen, and it's pretty freaking terrific. (Having a one-to-one trans-to-cis ratio in the committee doesn't hurt, either.)
And then afterwards, I'm saying my goodbyes and Kali wants to know if I've started hormones. I say, no, not yet, and she offers to email me info and stuff that she's got that could be useful, and complains that trans people need so much help but at the same time it's so hard to help people who don't want you to know they exist. Trufax, and I'm pretty excited. Self-motivating is not generally my strong suit, as mentioned, and all the technical stuff about getting on T -- endos, therapists' letters, etc, etc -- is just so overwhelming sometimes. I'll take all the help I can get.
