Jasmine's Post

Ok! Let's continue! I'll use more words for this part.

It's still August 2023 and I'm at 12 months HRT. Having just changed my legal name and come out publicly, I was now going out into the world as myself every day without exceptions.

This meant a shift. Previously I'd been presenting like a (feminine) cis man, making excursions into presenting as a woman. But now when that was my new baseline, I instead started making excursions from my everyday female presentation instead of to it.

In other words, I began exploring and creating my new social identity, as one does during puberty. :akko_smile2:

For the picture of my crossed legs, I used this fun phrase: “Sitting here in an oversized flannel shirt some guy left behind in my closet when she came out of there.” That was part of how I tried to establish my “new” identity with the cis people from my old life—the ones that didn't opt to stay behind when I came out. (I lost like two thirds of my network.)