The LGBTQ Outliers Club: Glad To Be a Member
Lots of cool, non-boring people
According to the Oxford Dictionary, an outlier is “a person differing from all other members of a particular group or set.” I have been accused of being an outlier all my life by different people. I have always accepted that description with pride.
I have never liked conformity.
Maybe it’s because I have never felt like I fit in since I was a child. I grew up in the 1950’s and 60's when conformity was the rule. That world was gender binary, ice cream choices were mainly vanilla or chocolate, and TV was black and white. People liked the simple rules and dreamed in shades of gray.
I dreamed in technicolor.
I have found that all my life that I am always attracted to the people who add energy to my life and I have tried to cut off or at least reduce my exposure to those that are negative energy feeders. They are the ones who seem to want the most attention. I accept that life can be hard but I simply want to live it with as much joy as I can.
Late in life, I found myself joining a very unique group of people. I discovered that I was transgender and that I was the “T” of LGBTQ. It probably explains why I have been an outlier all my life, I was born that way by being transgender. It is obviously…
