Hi Girls,
I've just got home after a few days at work, and the drive home was what could best be described as "interesting" ....to say the least !!
My drive to and from work takes me right across the City, so this evening, I was driving through the City Centre, when I came across a routine, random Police (Garda) vehicle check-point.
As the queue was quite long, they were letting 4 or 5 cars go on, and stopping others at random. Just my luck .......... I was one of those told to pull over !!
As I did so, I remembered that, although I've changed a number of my documents to Angela, my Driving Licence is still in my old male name! I hadn't changed it yet, as it's due for renewal soon anyway, and I thought I'd do them both at once! So, as I pulled over, another cop leaned down to the window and asked for my licence.
Passing no comment, I handed it to him, and he took it, looked at it, bent down and looked at me again, and asked why I appeared so different to my licence photo ?!!
I already knew that there was no way I could "bluff my way" out of telling him the truth, so I just stated that I was TG, on hormones, and that I was now living full-time in my female gender!
After a few seconds silence (to be expected, I suppose), he asked if I would mind waiting for a moment, while he dealt with the car behind? (As if I'd any choice!!).
A couple of moments later he returned, with another of his colleagues, and ask me if I would mind answering a few questions ............ but, if I didn't want to, that was ok, and i could go!
I was a bit intrigued by this ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, an option to answer questions or not ................ so I said I'd answer whatever he wanted!!
They asked me about TGism, it's "treatment", etc., and how did it differ from TVism?
I gave them as simple and clear answers as I could, and they both seemed genuinely interested, and were very polite throughout our chat (for, by now, that's what it had become!).
After about 10 minutes, the other cops, who'd been continuing with the check-point came over and said that they were to move location, so the two I'd been talking to thanked me for my time, and asdked if I would mind giving them my phone-number, so they could pass it on to one of their Community Liaison Officers.
They explained that they have a good "working relationship" with the Gay and Lesbian Communities, and through them, a contact to the TV community, but that, as far as they knew, there was no direct contact to the TG community!
If I didn't mind, a Liaison Officer would ring me in the near future, to try and set up some sort of contact between the Garda and the TG community, so that we could explain our problems and concerns to them, and they could better understand the TG community, and "educate" better their "rank and file" in how to treat us, and to take note of out concens!
As any improvement in community understanding HAS to be a good thing, I agreed !
We'll see what comes of it !!
So ............ Good cops / Bad cops ............... I think I certainly me a few of the "good ones" tonight !!
It made for a "more than interesting" drive home !!
Hugs,
Angela. xx.
What matter if I stand alone?
I wait with joy the coming years;
My heart shall reap where it has sown,
And garner up it's fruit of tears.