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Everyone should feel as though they belong, are welcome and valued Esi is an advocate for disability inclusion in the workplace and longs for a world where disabled people are treated equitably in every cornerstone of…
I have always found smiling didn't feel very natural, whether it was the impact of my early years growing up having to stare into the sun squinting whilst my parents took snaps with their old 126 format film camera, or the fact I was concentrating so hard and using a Bluetooth remote, I'm not sure. But sure, enough I looked at the photos and I was at best enigmatic with my smile, but never teeth showing or beaming.
It's funny, when I started my journey, I was so caught up in trying to be myself that I kinda forgot about just living my life. What do I mean by that? well, in the early days when I first started going out in public and presenting as female, it was all about the occasion, all about the glam, about going away for nights out or weekends away with the girls.
There comes a point when you take a look at your life and decide that the way things are just not working, whether it is your relationship, your job or as in my case, how I was expressing my gender identity. For many years I had realised that the gender I was living and functioning as didn’t match how if felt inside and who I was. I can't rationalise that, I can't explain it in any logical way, it was just how I was feeling. Something that has grown inside me for as long as I can remember back into my early years.
One thing I have noticed since I have been going out and about in the real world is the amount of looks and gazes I get. At first I was concerned I was being 'clocked' or 'outed' but more and more I started to realise that this is the kind of attention Genetic Woman have had to put up with all of their lives.
