On comings-out and transitions : comments [Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος]

I can totally see how shaving your beard would be a much bigger step than many other things.

Good luck on your continuing journey to being even more awesome.

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Thanks! I wasn't sure how understandable the beard thing would be to people. Even I didn't foresee it being the scariest part, before I started this latest leg of my journey.

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That shaving the beard is scary makes sense to me. As we talked about briefly in email a while back, the beard is what confused me about your gender identity for a long time, and since identity is obviously very important, the beard must also have a strong pull or you would have eliminated that apparent dissonance by now.

I first met you in the mid-80s, I think. I've never known you to *not* have that big beard. It's part of you.

But when you're ready, it can also be part of your history.

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