T-group meeting #1

Hello lovelies,

today I will tell you about my first visit at the Copenhagen transgender support group (yes, I am well aware that I have been putting this off for far too long). I can be a little reluctant to go new places - especially if I have to go there whithout anyone I know. In spite of my actually pretty decent social skills, you might want to call it social anxiety - I don't. I went together with my really good friends, a lesbian couple - where one of them is also MtF trans like I am. we decided to meet up earlier on the afternoon to shop for underwear and our little shopping trip turned into a full blown bank account massacre / Lingerie frenzy - I bought quite a few lovely pieces myself. I know for certain that I had a blast, since it is always interesting to peek at your friends dressing and undressing in clothes stores. There's nothing wrong with feeling a little creepy when you do it with the "victims" girlfriend<3
I think I want to use this opertunity to do a little advertisement aswell; NewYorker is an amazing place to shop for underwear, its relatively cheap, much like H&M, but the quality and fitting is far superior to their things. They also have some pieces that will make boys swoon and girls drool. Or was it the other way around? Nah, nobody cares about gender roles anyhow, because everybody loves unicorns and rainbow sprinkled ice cream.
               I think we might have shopped around in NewYorker for a couple of hours, just looking through underwear. At the time the store was closing, we all bought the pieces we liked and made for the LGBT library( this is where the support group meetings are held). I was very excited to go - since I had finally gotten myself together for it. Very excited to meet other trans* people and to finally meet Malene Andreasen, who is in fact both the founder and host of the T-group meetings. She is a lovely lady with a very special character and an optimistic glow, much to be admired. Upon entering the cozy lounge of the library, I realized we had a visitor; A journalist student on her last year who had come to learn about the transpolitic issues in the danish society. More specifically transgender issues revolving children and youth. We kept the talk going for several hours, touching everything from university traditions, to traditional and unconventional relationship structures, gender roles, sexuality vs genderidentity. Bigotry within the LGBT community and so on.
                 It was definately a cool experience and I can feel that having participated has given me a rise in both optimism and confidence <3 I am already looking forward to participating again.

xoxo Kira