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#TransJoy

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This weekend, my wife and I got to go for a very rare weekend away. It was relaxing and wonderful and so nice to just step away from all the everything for a little bit.

Last night we got to get dressed up and go out to a fancy dinner. I felt great. One of the nice restaurant staff said she loved how my wife (with her bright red hair, red lipstick, and dress with red flowers on it) and I matched but were opposites.

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Got a text from my son this morning. They found a drag bar in Seoul that is a celebration of queer joy and safety in community.

Previously they'd found some gay bars (they pass masc enough now as an masc-enby to be allowed in) but their lesbian friends were not. So they kept looking for a space they can all share.

I'm so happy that my son is finding their community of queers. Being on your own in a new country is hard!

'A walk in Cork' this Saturday morning (just...)

  1. Me in colour? Hell may be freezing over, I'm in red
  2. The two of us, with @IsabelB
  3. Isabel and Toto are ahead 🐶
  4. The foxgloves are out 🌺

I'm openly trans and really don't mind who knows, it's liberating! The journey is tremendously deep, medical stuff is less a goal than a natural intuitive process intertwined with self actualization ...

Have a nice day 🌞

I've decided that instead of "deadname", which I like but has sort of negative connotations that I feel like I want to avoid, I'm going to refer to that name I once bore as an "appellation d'origine contrôlée", or "appcon" as I'll use it.

It means "a name for a thing that comes from a specific region", like champagne, or burgundy, or bologna.

Mine was a name that, thankfully, no one has ever claimed as a feminine name, nor has there ever been a movement to use it for girls. So if I define the region as "masculinity", it works perfectly. It wasn't right for me - I'm not from there. I don't have the right to call myself by that appellation controllée.

Somehow, it lets me hate my appcon a little less. It's a good enough name, I guess, for those who come from Masculinia. But I'm not from there.