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Buying clothes
Today we went to a classy department store to buy Julia a new outfit. She has been trying on clothes for more than an hour and I brought her one garment after another. Skirts, blouses, bras… I feel completely at ease in the women’s department nowadays. That is so different from how it used to [...]
Assertive
My colleague H addressed me with my former, male name. I was started and so was another colleague, M. M and I exchanged a glance.“How can he do a thing like this?” my eyes asked.“You have to correct him, right now!” said M’s eyes. But I didn’t say a word and the conversation went on.I [...]
Sunday in Turnhout
No, not “Dimanche a Bruxelles”! We didn’t stay in Brussels for long. First we slept in and then we had a quick breakfast, loaded our stuff into the car and checked out. The lady at the reception desk asked the question that must have been on the lips of all personnel in the hotel: “Are [...]
Samedi a Bruxelles
First I had to go shopping for contact lens liquid. Fortunately we found an optometrist very close to the hotel. And although my French is not good enough to understand the finer details of French language literature, it certainly was enough to get me what I needed. I carefully unpacked the lenses. They were sticking [...]
Vendredi a Bruxelles
On Friday morning we departed to Brussels and we arrived there before noon. They say traffic in Paris is a chaos, but in Brussels it is similar. And yet people are very polite in traffic. Pedestrians are given a free passage at every crossing and when I almost lost my way and ended up in [...]
Mortgage
This week some idiot called me to try to talk me into a different mortgage. Of course I didn’t fall for that. I hope we all know the slithery ways of these salesmen. The disadvantages of their ‘beneficial’ mortgage offering will only become clear when it is too late.But he did address me as ‘madam’ [...]
Eleventh column
Fortunately the USA has switched to daylight saving time now, so I only needed to wait until 2 AM until Gendertalk started. I was of course very curious, because it was ‘my turn’ again: My eleventh column was about to be broadcast…The complete program will be available in the Gendertalk archive next week.If you want [...]
Boxes
Here you have it again: I was filling out a customer satisfaction questionnaire in our company restaurant. One of the questions was: What is your gender? [male] [female].So I spontaneously said: “Here is that irrelevant question again!”Whereupon a colleague, who still does not feel comfortable about my transition after more than two and a half [...]
Puss-in-boots
Transsexuals at Work
Tuesday was another busy day. I had to make a very early start at work to be able to leave again early enough to go to the transsexual support group at Humanitas. Of course I didn’t get enough sleep — again –, but I felt surprisingly fit.There was still a lot of parking-space available, so [...]