Post #867501

Today is #TDOV. For me, I feel that today is the least visible I’ve ever been since I came out. In prior years, as part of a volunteer role with a corporate employee resource group at my prior employer, I would be seeing communications I drafted go out celebrating TDOV and explaining the purpose of it. I would be leading roundtable or discussion. I would usually wear something to bring awareness. This year, none of that is happening for I changed jobs due to pressures and the changing political environment and at the new job I don’t advertise I am #trans. In addition I am off work and home alone due to recovering from surgery. Yet that surgery I’m healing from, which occurred 1 week ago, is facial feminization surgery, which is one step trans ladies may take on their journey. My bruises and swelling is a visible reminder of me being trans. And in a few shorts days will mark 5 years since I publicly came out as #trans. What does #TDOV mean for me today? I don’t know, but it is something I’m marking for myself. Wishing you all the best.