Finally went swimming again
Finally went swimming again đ Last weekend was my daughterâs birthday. She wanted to go swimming as a fun thing to do for âher day.â I have not been swimming in years. Mainly, it was because as my dysphoria grew I was simply uncomfortable being the âold me.â Then, there was the whole awkward period while beginning to transition, etc.
For a while now, I have been at the point in my transition where I just donât really care if people figure things out as long as they still mind their own business. I donât necessarily care if I âpassâ or not, I just donât want confrontations in front of my kids or anything negative to happen in front of them. Their progress in accepting me is amazing and I do not want some bigoted jerk to ruin that. I decided it was finally time to just get over it though and we swam at the pool at my apartment complex. There were quite a few people there, but I had no issues and even spoke with a couple of the people there (with still no issues).
At the time, I only had the purple suit shown in one of the photos (I stole my daughterâs sun glasses for the selfie, lol). While I felt okay wearing the purple one-piece, I needed to wear swim shorts over it just to be safe. The one piece always felt like it was tugging too much on the shoulder or inner thigh so it was just âdecentâ comfort-wise. Since tomorrow (6/18) is my birthday, I ended up buying myself a new suit earlier this week. It is two pieces, a black swim top and yellow patterned swim skirt.
It turns out I got it just in time because a girlfriend of mine just invited me to a 4th of July girls-only swim party!