I had to go down to the college I’m transfering to earlier today to talk to a few of the advisors and make sure I was going to make all the deadlines/etc. 

And while I was walking around the campus with my Mother (and her Boyfriend), she pulled a few Student Magazines off the rack and handed them to me before grabbing one herself to look through. 

Somehow she managed to grab Fusion, KSU’s LGBTQQA magazine. And somehow she managed to flip to the page where an article about Gender Identity was. 

She immedately slammed the magazine shut and threw it in a trash bin. I tried to scramble to grab it (because she’d given me another issue and I really would have liked to read this article). 

She looked so mortified and asked what I was going to do with the magazine she’d given me. I told her read it and she seemed completely confused - though she didn’t seem too surprised all the same. 

And as we were walking away, back to the car, I saw some of the Ace Bandage clips (claw-things, whatever the horrible things I always loose are called). 

I couldn’t help but grin, because I feel as though my going here will be a step in the right directly. I’m really hoping to meet some Genderqueer and Trans* people on campus. And I’m really hoping to start my process and not feel so completely alone - something I’ve been convinced would end up happening.