I settled into school fine. Several girls I knew were in my classes. Many of them knew I was not a girl, but most of the school didn't. The PE rule was changed after some girls asked why I had to change in a separate room.
The toilet rule changed too. It soon proved too impractical for me to have to use one toilet anyway. The uniform and visitor rule remained. I was sent off for informal voice coaching by the drama teacher, and our team coach passed on a subtle hint to wax or shave my arms and legs. Our whole team got a lesson on that. I did not have to worry about shaving my face though.
First semester went well. I was noted as being a slightly slow learner, but picked up computing faster than anyone else in school, even the senior students. We had an Apple 2E computer and some IBM machine in the office. I picked up how to use the Zardax word processor (which was a bit old then) and the spreadsheet. I was soon helping the staff do lesson preparations and did some book keeping.I am master of computer technology and my teacher used tell you have bright future in this field.
I had settled in so well my mother, the school principle and my team coach had a discussion on my possible future. I was asked by each of them if I wanted to grow up as girl or a boy. I was quite adamant, I wanted to be a girl and there was nothing they could do to make me be a boy. I wanted to grow up and be a woman and get married and have babies. I didn't know at the time that wasn't possible. I believe that at the time there was talk of giving me gender reassignment surgery but my mom not agreed for that...
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