December 18, 2024

Are the Cis Ok?

As we transition, we sometimes have conversations with cis people. Some of them funny, some rather awkward. Since I had some of them that were really entertaining or funny I thought I write a bit about these short episodes. Note that there might be situations readers would not feel comfortable with reading about.

I will tell these stories as micro novels. So feel free to skip the ones you might not be comfortable with or not interested in. But now let’s start with the strange encounters of the curious kind 🙂

Are you wearing a costume?

I was at the supermarket running some errands, wearing a blouse, a jeans skirt and bright colored tights as usual. An elder lady in trousers looks down at me, points to my skirt, giggles and asks: “Are you wearing a costume?” I point to her trousers and say: “Not more than you.” And we both laugh out loud and she walks away nodding and snickering. Gender education doesn’t need to be aggressive 💕

Tights for medical reasons

Some time ago, I was standing in the queue at the bakery (“only 3 customers in the shop at a time!”, it was during a surge of corona) when a man further back in the queue leaned out to the side as I was looking in his direction, pointed at my bright colored tights and said loudly: “Can I ask you a question? Are you wearing them for medical reasons or… ?” I thought it was kind of cute and said: “No, I do so because I think it’s nice.” and he nods approvingly.

Is this a man or a woman?

I was standing at the counter in the supermarket. To my right side there was a young father with his maybe 4 or 5 years old son. I was wearing a dress as usual. The son looks up to me, up to his father, back up to me and you could see how he’s thinking. When he saw that his father didn’t notice him, he pulled at his father’s sleeve and tried to whisper (children are not good at whispering 😅) while looking at me: “Is this a man or a woman?” The father starts get get a red face, slowly upwards from the neck over the face, and did not know what to say. The lady behind the counter, who knows me very well, starts to laugh. I say to the young boy: “THIS is a good question I sometimes ask myself too!” Now the lady behind the counter can’t contain herself any longer and laughs so much that she has to get hold of the counter.