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Today I have two meetings I need to attend to.
The first is a LGBTQ Veteran’s support group session I haven’t been in awhile. The reason I haven’t is because I have been going to (virtually) the special ten week group meetings which concentrated on the overall impact the VA (Veteran’s Administration) has had on my life during the span of my dealings with them. I make no secret of the fact I have been satisfied with my experiences. In fact, I consider my VA therapist to be one of the top influences in my life as I attempted to transition fully to a transgender woman.
She, my therapist, was front and center for me when I needed help with starting my hormone replacement therapy all the way to when I needed help changing my legal gender markers in the VA system. This goes back over a decade ago when transgender veterans were not so well known in the system and many were not respected. So, I will be interested how many of the “regular” attendee’s will continue to come to the meeting which as I said, restarts this afternoon,
Also today and much more challenging will be the monthly meeting of the Alzheimer’s group of Greater Cincinnati’s diversity council. I will be challenged this time because the meeting is across town and is an in person event. Mainly because one person wants to look everyone “in the eye” as she talks to them. As we all know, looking someone…
