Pretty cool update

I spent 2 hours and 13 minutes Skyping with Oak Reed. One of my most interesting conversations. Oak hasn't been able to come across many other in the transcommunity (let alone MtF. Apparently I was his first :P). He has, however, had dinner with Chaz Bono. Which made me VERY jealous. I found out that the ACLU still is holding his case and that he is, indeed, suing the school. I asked what he felt about the media's interpretation of events, and truthfully, a lot of the things I joked about were the same things we laughed about. My most interesting observation being that in seemingly every article, it ends with "Reed says he will try for prom" or something of that nature. He told me (number one, he never told ANY reporter that) and that he doesn't really want to have a repeat. Perfectly understandable. Why, if you're still waiting on a case against a school you're suing, would you want to push MORE buttons? (See that tie-in I made there with my last post. Mhmmm)

We also talked about the mundane. Bunking in band camp. Reactions in school. A short little timeline of his life. He relayed to me that he has been getting a surge of older transpeople on both sides asking questions like "How can I come out?" when he never really had to come out. Based on the story he shared with me, he's basically been living full-time his whole life. You can't really come out when you're full time. (Wish I was that lucky :P) We also talked about the power of thought in transition. That if we thought hard enough we'd see changes in our selves, with or without hormones. Oak has not started T, a fact I found interesting (Although he did at first ask me how long I'D been on T, thinking I was FTM xD I'd have to say a good 17 years) because he has manly features and a deep voice. Not to say he's big and husky (You've seen pictures in the article I linked) but he just looks so age appropriate for his gender. In all honesty, he's flat out hot. All I have to say. Unfortunately, I looked and sounded like shit at the time. Go figure.

Splattered in between the media and the home life was the talk that only transpeople can have. Stuff you cis people wouldn't care for. Binding, tucking and packing. I felt like I was boring him at one point with my transgirl issues, and I'm sure he thought the same when he was talking about his issues, only I spend so much time with transboys, talking and helping out with issues is second nature at this point. It was nice to get someone new to talk to. Talking to the same Rutgers people who hate me over and over can get boring. Besides, if all trans fails, we can always talk about Marching Band :]