On Friday I'm going to co-lead a forum on aging in the transgender community. I guess I'm qualified to lead it: After all, I am transgender and I am, well, aging.
The forum is going to be held at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The following day, a larger meeting will be held as part of a conference at the Graduate Center.
I'm looking forward to it, as it will allow me to see some people I haven't seen in a while, including Jay, the very first person to whom I "came out." When you become an aging tranny (or an aging anything else), you are amazed at how much time has passed, so quickly, between various landmarks in your life. However, when I see people like Jay or Tom (the director of SAGE), I feel as if whole eras have passed. It seems that between encounters with them, I change in some way or another. And, I feel as if they, too, change. For me, the reasons are clear: I am still in an early stage of my new life, only a year and four months removed from my surgery. But I feel as if Jay, Tom, Pauline and some of the others are also changing.
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