As you can see, I stand out from average sized women. But I'm accepted in my presentation. It's a nice feeling to know that one can be accepted for who she is inside. But this may also be a reflection of my personality as Marian, as Vicki has noted that I am much more at home as Marian than I am being Mario.
I'd love to have two people no longer in my life to see the above picture taken at the FTF meetup group's 2021 Prom. Even better, I'd have loved for one of them to be at this meetup. No, it's not to impose Marian on this person. Instead, it's to show this person that there is nothing to be embarrassed about in being with me.
You'll notice that I am in the back of this picture of the women from the FTF meetup group. The caption on the website labels us the women of the prom, plus one photo bomber. At one time later on, several of the women got me up and dancing. Even more fun, one fellow took me to dance with him shortly after this picture was taken. (No, my gender preference hasn't changed. But it was fun to have a man treat me as a woman.)
Although I didn't bother to correct this picture for the background light, you can easily see that my "friend" wanted another picture of me with him. And I gladly complied. There was one thought in the back of my mind that I made sure to not act on. It would have been a fun picture to have taken with me kissing him by surprise. But several bad things could have come of it, so I let this innocuous shot be taken.
It was a fun evening, and I hope to do this again next year.
