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Pink Monday
I had extended my holiday with one extra day to visit an event I had had to miss time and time again. The first Monday of the carnival in Tilburg is commonly known as “Pink Monday”. From all over the country gays and lesbians and transvestites and many others who don’t conform to the standard [...]
Eighteenth Column
Tonight my eighteenth column was broadcast in Gendertalk #520.You can find the complete program in the Gendertalk archive.Or you can find just my column at:http://eveliensnel.nl/audio/NATUR12.mp3A full transcript of the text is below: Skinny DippingIf you start living full-time in the opposite gender role, you go around every day trying to look like a girl although [...]
The Secret
We felt like going out for dinner. But where to go? We wanted to go somewhere we had never been before. Fortunately Rudi (the route planner) can solve problems like this as well: Put in a disk with restaurant data, turn the knob and take your pick! “Het Geheim” (“The Secret”)? That sounded exciting, so [...]
To the VU
Today I went to the gender clinic at the VU in Amsterdam for the usual tests they do every three months. I thought this would be a dull routine matter, but it turned out differently. Our conversation with the psychologist was quite heavy. Hormones are now bubbling through my body and that has the effect [...]
Seventeenth Column
Tonight my seventeenth column was broadcast in Gendertalk #518.You can find the complete program in the Gendertalk archive.Or you can find just my column at:http://eveliensnel.nl/audio/OUT11.mp3A full transcript of the text is below: Out of WorkIt is three years ago that I transitioned from working as a man to working as a woman. And now I [...]
Eindhoven Ballooning
On Saturday we headed for Lake Karpendonk for “Eindhoven Ballooning”. This event featured putting up and sailing more than two dozen hot air balloons. A beautiful show that is best illustrated with a lot of pictures: First the balloon is completely empty and it is lying on the grass as a dull sheet of canvas. [...]
Vacation
Since there is no work for me anyway, I can now take all the vacation I want, so I took three weeks off to begin with. When I was still working in my project, our project leader got red spots all over his face if I wanted to take an afternoon off. And now I [...]
Cycling with the Girls
On Sunday afternoon Julia and I went for a bicycle trip with two other girls. We went quite a bit further than Julia and I are used to do, but it was well worth it. Our friend E. had told us she knew a “very nice spot”.Of course we were curious to go and see [...]
Cabaret Champagne
This month we took two close friends with us to the T&T-evening.; They were very curious to meet transvestites. And they have learned a lot this evening. They had a completely wrong image of transvestites and about what would be going on at a T&T-evening.;First of all they thought most transvestites would probably be gay. [...]