Well I’ve been away from blogging for a bit (no kidding Becki!) but it’s for a good reason, it was to attend this year’s annual First Event. Generally speaking, First Event, put on by TCNE, a local gender advocacy group here in Boston, is the first gender event of the year (hence the name). It was a particularly important point in my life this year as I actually physically went outside dressed and presenting as who I am, in my correct gender, as a woman. Having Gender Identify Disorder (GID), that is, being a transgendered person, is a very niggling issue for many of us. It’s something you wrestle with constantly trying to figure out what is wrong with you. Sometimes, you deal with it in unfortunate ways, through alcohol, drug addiction or other addictive behavior patterns to dull it; sometimes you just give up and commit suicide (we have too many of those, they make us all very sad). But the only real way to deal with it successfully is to accept it, look at your options, and take your options one step at at time.
The point of First Event though is to bring together the various groups
in the transgender community to talk about a variety of issues and have
some fun 
Afterall, that’s an important part of being a whole person! I think the seminars with the most impact to me were the ones on marriage (how to keep one intact) and on employment discrimination and how to deal with that. I’ll post more on both later since both were outstanding.
Oh one of the highlights for me was meeting this person here. Who would know she would not only be the worlds most bestest undiscovered beat reporter, but just a genuinely nice person. No doubt she kicked butt on the pool tables in the after hours!
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