On Friday evening Denise and I attended a function for the managers and partners of the company that Denise works three days a week for. It was to be held at a venue quite close to us and as one of her colleagues lives in Margaret River Denise asked her and her husband to stay the night with us. Denise isn’t drinking at the moment so she volunteered to drive the four of us back to ours when the event had ended. The bosses wife had opted to go on to another venue to continue her evening so the boss ended up joining us as well. Denise had made a pavlova and her colleague had brought a cheese platter so desert was well catered for. Once home we chatted late into the night in fact into the early hours of the morning before going to bed and the evening had been an extremely enjoyable event with lots of good people.
We woke just after 7am as there were voices in the kitchen. As I was on scrambled egg duty we got up and set to work cooking a breakfast of bacon, mushrooms, toast and of course my legendary eggs, all washed down with coffee or tea and all was well with the world. The boss left first and others shortly after but before they left there was more chatting to be done. Denise was talking to the husband and me to her colleague when it happened, she turned to me and said her husband had told her that had he not had prior knowledge of the fact that I am transgender he wouldn’t have guessed! Honestly there is nothing better that anyone could say to me, I was thrilled to say the least. Coupled with the fact that another one of the managers at the event whom I have known for around seven years but have only recently reconnected with said both he and his wife thought I made a very elegant lady, I felt thoroughly humbled. I have known for years that I was on the wrong side but whenever I thought about transitioning one of the main things that stopped me was the belief that I would never be able to pass as a female, how wrong I was!