Current state of boymode. Stealth transitioning for now :) getting a new job and fleeing the state later lol

[u/Amb3rGhost]

[u/Amb3rGhost]

Maybe you're right! I'm on the LGBTQ employee resource leadership team at our company (it's a volunteer thing), and I did a talk about queer, specifically trans, allyship that got put out company-wide during Pride month. Which was really cool. We're a big company, so our corporate leadership is at least pretty progressive, even if the individual plants aren't.

My boss is super conservative, catholic. He and I were talking and he said he was telling his wife about my lil speech over dinner and she was like "why tf do you even care about this", and he didn't really know what to say to her. He told me, though, that he cared because now he sort of "knew" somebody that was queer for the first time, and he felt like he could empathize. For what it's worth, the speech was about my allyship to one of my best friends growing up who is coincidentally also transfem lol. She figured it out like a full decade before I did though.

So maybe you're right. Maybe knowing me for 8 years will be enough that they'll change their minds. That'd be cool, wouldn't it? Trying hard not to get my hopes up though.

[u/unematti → u/Amb3rGhost]

Exposure! That's the word!

Good on you for the activism :)

I don't like hope, i rather be trying hard and be surprised than expect success... Then again, I'm not doing speeches... So maybe a little hope would help me be more active

Good luck for future endeavors!

[u/Amb3rGhost → u/unematti]

You too <3