Date: 2010-06-27 01:26 Security: Public Mood: happy Tags: swimming, transgender issues Subject: Swimming!

I did a Thing today. Well, technically yesterday, since it's 1:26am now, but.

For the first time, I went swimming as a woman.

It was good! I will admit to taking some precautions; when the end of the swimming session drew near, I got out of the pool about 2-3 minutes early so that I could use the shower and disappear into a cubicle before everyone else came into the changing rooms - just in case. (I probably wouldn't have had a problem, but I didn't want to risk it.) And although I had a good time in the pool, I didn't speak to anybody else in the pool (although I did speak to some lifeguards about keeping my locker key safe, as I found out that my key didn't have a wristband on it, oops).

I had a good time though! And it was so good to be able to do that. I've always wanted to be able to swim in a one-piece swimsuit, and today I was finally able to do that for the first time. With any luck, this won't be the last time either.

At first I was going to go at a less busy time, so as not to be seen by too many people, but in the end I went on probably the busiest time; 3pm on a Saturday, on what turned out to be a blisteringly hot day. This was partly due to just wanting to go out and swim, and partly because I figured that I would actually draw *less* attention to myself that way. As it turned out, pretty much everybody only saw me in the water, as I arrived about 30 minutes after the start of the session and got out a few minutes before the end, so nobody actually saw me in the changing rooms. I would hope that it wouldn't be too much of a problem in any case, though; at worst I think I'd have looked androgynous.

Of course, I'd be a lot more comfortable doing this when I'm on hormones, and even more so when I eventually go post-op, if/when that comes to pass. But it seems I *can* do this.