So, this was a bit of an ego-boo, though I guess I’m getting to the point when this stuff seems sort of past me. I guess because I always plan on being open about my history, though, incidents like this might come up from time to time. I guess what I mean is that they don’t have the same impact they once did. My transsexual history really is starting to be one of the smaller elements of my history, which is as it should be.

   Anyway…

   When someone learned that I have a history of transsexualism, they thought that my transition was going from female-to-male. This person had met me a few months ago, before my sex reassignment surgery. When he met me before, I guess he misunderstood when we spoke of my transition. I hadn’t seen him since then. I saw him again last night, and he pulled one of my friends aside and when speaking about me he asked if “she had changed her mind.”

   Huh.

   Interesting.

   It’s funny, because I have a hard time believing that anyone could see me as butch enough to give off the energy that I’ve gotten from most trans men that I’ve known. But, whatever. The reason that this counts as an ego-boost is because in order to see me as making a female-to-male transition it means that in his mind I was a cisgendered woman making a transition. 

   Cool.

   This isn’t the first time that’s happened, either. I’m “enough” of a woman now that when some people find out about my transsexual past they assume that I was born as a cisgendered female and that I’m transitioning to male. 

   The world is weird.