I play in a blues band, and we have a few weeks off from practice
but I'm starting my RLE (Real Life Experience) as a woman next
Tuesday in class, and I really felt the need to come out about being
trans (they already know I'm gay, but we've never talked about it)
so anyways, what ever happens -it was time to come out so I sent
an email (because I'm a total chicken) here it is

Band Members,

I wanted to give you some additional information about the worker retraining

program that I'll be entering Tuesday that I've been keeping private from you.

Basically when I went to the job fair where I heard about this training program,

when I interviewed to get into the program, when I went to fill out the forms and 

got accepted into the program I was dressed as a woman.  Obviously I used my

real name, and no one was really duped into thinking I was a woman, but 

that was how I was dressed and presented myself.  

For a very long time I have wanted to be able to try something like this 

in real life and see what it would be like.  I am seeing a psychologist who is  

knowledgeable in Gender Identity Disorder, and while it is a pretty rare 

condition, the "experts" really don't consider it a mental illness, it's more

a case of how a person sees themselves and identifies with who they are.

There is a very wide spectrum of "trans people" and a variety of options

including Sexual Reassignment Surgery -which I would never do,

Hormone Replacement Therapy -which I object to for philosophical

reasons and Real Life Experience - which basically means spending

some time living as a member of the opposite sex and seeing what it

is like - that is what I am going to try, and since I all ready attend church

that way and spend some time going out to plays and support groups and 

various events, and have since October (when I first started coming out

about this publicly) I personally feel pretty comfortable about going to

these classes dressed as a woman, and even if it turns out to be a bad

idea, the building facilities training is relevant to my career.

Now as it turns out, I will probably be working my old job part-time, 

(they called me the other day) -so the reality is I will wake up, put on '

my makeup, go to class from 8 to 12 Monday through Thursday, take 

off my makeup put on my work clothes and work from 2 to 6 then show

up for band practice one day a week looking and acting the same as

always, so I suppose I could have kept it private, but I wanted to let you 

know about this, and go from there.

[my name]

so I sent it out a couple minutes ago. if things go well we're scheduled to play

Pride, so they're good guys, regardless, but I just have to see what develops

Plot script for yesterdays play

the actor played a death scene from Othello and had a romantic scene

with his lover, The woman playing a woman role was introduced by way

of conversation a repeat of the death scene but on stage (first time

was in rehearsal) then two ladies go to green room and invite him

out -turns out it a wager to see if he is really a man or a woman -

when a rich fop shows up mistaking the group for whores he has

fun humiliating the others-  but in his next performance the fop 

has hired some ruffians to throw shit on him as he performs his role,

then soon after repeating the exact same role (but this time dressed

as the fop) he is triumphant on stage, but is "mistaken" for the fop

when he goes out to a park with the ladies again -here he is beaten

up brutally in slow motion  -Intermission-

so after the intermission the king decrees that all womens roles

are to be played by women only from now on, the Actor recovers,

he winds up in a bar performing as a woman doing a lewd song

about a man with no balls, then ultimately helps his female actress

rival act the Othello death scene he is famous for -but she can't

do well -they practice the scene then it is performed live where

he almost kills her leading to the happy ending