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30 Questions for Pride Month, Day 7: Where did you first find any information or resources on being trans?

Funny story.

It's middle school, probably seventh grade I'm guessing. That'd make it about 1986 or 1987. Our Social Studies teacher gave us all a country to learn about and write a report that we'd give a presentation on. Mine: Sri Lanka.

Now, it's 1986. I have an IBM PC jr, no modem, and, really, no consumer internet for that modem to connect to. We had these things called "ENCYCLOPEDIAS." Great big books with all the world's information in them. I had a HUGE set of these books that I actually read quite a bit. I was wikisurfing before wikis were invented through those books.

So I needed to write this report and I cracked open the book where Sri Lanka should have been in. And I started going back and forth looking for Sri Lanka when I came across "Sexual Deviations, Human."

(Disclaimer, this was the 1980s, the terms the Encyclopedia Brittanica was using, and where it placed them at the time. Not me)

Being pumped full of fresh testosterone and all the idiocy that comes with that, I was intrigued. I started reading. Learned about fetishism, BDSM and...transvesitism.

And as I read about it, I began thinking, is this what I am? It says here that a transvestite is someone who gets aroused by wearing women's clothes. I don't. But I WANTED to wear it. Maybe the article was wrong. Maybe I was wrong. But suddently, I thought, well, at least I have a name.

And I kept reading - and got to transsexuality. AND SUDDENLY THERE IT WAS. Me. And reading it, it all finally crystallized in my head. And there was a FIX.

And I was gonna take that fix.

Somehow.

(Spoiler alert: Didn't happen and now is no longer medically possible. Boo.)

https://twitter.com/gwenners/status/1399574609536503810

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So when I tried to make the full hot and sour soup for my family when they were here, the recipe came out incredibly bland, which blew my mind because when I make just the soup base, it's perfect.

So I decided to try again and see if it still failed, and sure enough, doing the full recipe the soup came out REALLY bland. So this time I started re-adding flavors in, and around the triple-the-recipe mark, it sort of came out. But now it was SWEET.

I think I can make it better by (1) not tripling the sugar in the recipe when I begin tripling the flavoring ingredients and (2) cutting out the tomato and red pepper, which are also sweetening the soup.

The recipe I have calls for those, but honestly, no where I've bought Hot and Sour soup has actually HAD those ingredients....

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Thoughts Before Bed

"I've got the body of a woman double my age!"
"You're....you're 46."
"Yes!"

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Baby Yoda memes have reached the level of annoyance I have for Minion memes.

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Marineopolis Sushiland didn't survive the pandemic.

A piece of me has died.

Maybe Jollibee will make up for it.