So today is the day we travel to Perth to lodge my gender reassignment application, the first step in being recognised as the true person I am. I have to say I was a little nervous, we were later than I had planned setting off and the traffic was worse than I expected but we arrived at the office, it was quite a challenge finding the door but we managed and took the lift to the sixth floor as directed. We only had a short time to wait and a lovely helpful young lady came out and took us into an office where she went through the paperwork we had brought and seemed happy with it. The plan was to then take a copy of the application to the attorney general as you have to lodge it with him as well but the kind lady said she would do that for me and I duly signed the stat dec and off it went. To say it felt like a huge step was an understatement, it all adds to the feeling of how real it is now and also to my excitement that I am soon going to be the person I want to be both physically and officially.
We stopped in Bunbury on the way home to do some shopping and it feels so good to be able to go into shops and interact with people as Stephanie, it just feels normal now.