A gender affirming experience.. Public women's bathroom edition!
r/MtF • 17 hr. ago • by Reichenstein7
A group of us girlfriends went to the Virginia Safari Park today, where I had to use the women's restroom and had a very unexpected gender affirming experience. I generally attempt to use a single stall bathroom for
safety reasons, but this place has a regular shared multi-stalled bathroom.
I went into the restroom by myself as my other two friends were doing something else at the moment in the car, and as soon as I opened the door there's this little old lady, half naked standing in front of the door at the sink.
I don't really feel like I pass so I did a hand gesture, with my hand on my chest and looked down in kind of a curtsy motion to turn around and leave the bathroom and she calls out to me; "oh it's all right dear, I was trying to get some of these clothes off as I got too hot and I seem to be caught up, can you please help me?" I, while minding my voice to the best of my ability, said sure and gave her a little hand gesture. (
I mostly talk in hand gestures as I really need to work on my voice training.)
Sure enough, she had her shirt tangled in her bra, and I proceeded to free her shirt and get back down over her head. She thanked me, and I headed to the back stall. There was absolutely nothing awkward about this encounter other than my initial reaction, and it was kind of a beautiful moment of acceptance in a way.