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Up-coming Transgender<br />
Conferences - Why YOU need to<br />
be there.<br />
The Single most often asked<br />
question at CDI..<br />
If there were one question asked at CDI dinners<br />
more than any other by those exploring their CD/<br />
Trans feelings it would undoubtedly be “ What is<br />
my next step, what do I do now? “<br />
I for one am always quick to say “Learn!”, though I<br />
say it with a caveat thrown in - that caveat being<br />
that there exists a world of difference between<br />
having X number of years experience pursuing an<br />
interest .vs having one year of experience X times o<strong>ver</strong> and o<strong>ver</strong> again. It’s a distinction worth<br />
stopping and thinking about for a moment because it is not necessarily an obvious one.<br />
For me one of the most compelling things about life in the gender-crossing world is the opportunity to<br />
learn an immense amount of material and be<br />
rewarded almost immediately with socially<br />
affirming results. In this world you can walk<br />
down the street en-femme looking like a wreck,<br />
or you can look awesome. You can effortlessly<br />
hold a con<strong>ver</strong>sation out in public, or you can be<br />
o<strong>ver</strong>whelmed with anxiety. The choice is yours,<br />
and the rapidity with which you progress from<br />
one state to the other is <strong>entire</strong>ly dependent upon<br />
the decisions one makes.<br />
The good news is that the learning curricula has<br />
already been worked out for us by the previous<br />
generation of transgender folks who in doing so<br />
wrapped it in a package of crazy fun in the form<br />
of transgender conferences.<br />
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