I’m really settled on the name Samantha now. It feels like I have come home to a comfy blanket of rightness. Joanne never felt like me. It felt like an expedient. A lazy feminisation of my birth name that I…
Category: Transgender
Ponderance
I feel like such a fraud right now. I know I am a girl, my mindset is of a girl, but I have reverted to living as a guy outside the house since 2nd lockdown. Not even tried to go…
What do any of us really know about the shoes in which we have never walked?
Someone sent me a link to this short TED talk by Paula Stone Williams It’s very good. The key quote I took from it was “What do any of us really know about the shoes in which we have never…
Continuing journey
I received an absolutely lovely comment on one of my Flickr pics recently: What a pleasure to see the subtle but striking changes from your first photographs to this one, you have changed into such a pretty woman ? Looking…
Time to break out the lasers again
It’s now been over 3 years since I last had laser hair removal treatment. Mostly, things have stayed pretty much static on my body. As I mentioned in my last post on the subject, regrowth on my arms and legs…
Girls who do Maltings
One of the things that my various social media accounts often results in is contact with other t-girls, and one such girl is Siobhan Hapgood who regularly comments on my Facebook posts and who has become a friend as a…
Two people, or two facets?
As a genderfluid / two-spirit / 3rd gender person, I sometimes present as female and sometimes present as male. I’ve covered this several times in the past. Often I see fellow t-girls referring to their girl side in the third…
Diary update – Lady driver
Recently I popped over to Thruxton Race Circuit for a track day organised by Gold Track. It’s a circuit I have driven several times before, but on this occasion I was not driving as my sports car is too noisy…
Dear diary
Somewhat surprisingly, people actually read my blog (I know – it came as a surprise to me too) and people have been asking me what I’ve been up to, and how the job is going. As I mentioned in my…
A new chapter
As you may or may not know, I work on a freelance basis rather than being a permanent employee of a company, although often it is on a contract basis with just one client. For the past 2+ years I…