My Transgender Day: A Transitional Farce in Five Brief Acts

An emotionally and physically tiring game of juggling

Emma Holiday
Prism & Pen
Published in
10 min readMar 18, 2024

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The curtain rises on a farce of a day. https://www.pexels.com/@monica/

I am a late-in-life transitioning transgender woman. “What does that mean?” I hear the gender-uninformed cisgender person ask, possibly followed by: “What is cisgender?” To speed along the story I have put a brief glossary of terms below.*

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Emma Holiday
Prism & Pen

After decades of denial I finally answered the question “What’s wrong with me?” The answer is “Nothing”. I am transgender and I am OK.