Jenny's week, WC 11th July 2022

Here in the UK are experiencing a particularly warm spell this week, it's forecast to continue and get warmer still. We Brits are obsessed with the weather, it's a prime topic of conversation and is discussed more than once a day. The TV weather presenters have gone overboard with heatwave warnings and if they are to be believed the UK is only slighter cooler than the surface of the sun.

The thing is we don't get this type of heat that often and so everyone is getting really excited about it. Unfortunately, for a transwoman like myself who requires a lot of help in creating a female silhouette it's been too warm to fully dress. As a result Jenny has had to content herself with wearing minimal items of female clothing. So it's been underwear and a chemise only for me this week.

The week has passed with no significant events, work progressed as normal without incident, and the evenings have passed as usual in chat rooms where plenty of friends are in regular contact. I'm finding that, this type of contact with other girls and admirers alike is very fulfilling, it's nice to be virtually out as Jenny, even if I don't feel confident enough to step out of the door yet. 

On the shopping front, I'm still waiting for 2 new dresses to arrive from Shein, hopefully they'll arrive just as the weather cools down, and I'll be able to wear them straight away. I've also taken delivery of two pairs of stockings, and I have a question to ask. Just how far up your legs are they supposed to go? As a girl who has always favoured tights I'm used to pulling them all the way up to my waist, but stockings, do you have a set amount of bare leg before your knicker line starts or do you pull them up as far as they go? The pairs ordered turned out to be hold ups and while the stocking itself is very sheer and wonderful to wear, I found that the  'hold up' part  was very uncomfortable at the top of my thigh, are stockings made for suspenders as uncomfortable? 

Also arriving in the mail this week from Amazon, was a bright red lipstick and a paler lip liner which I've yet to attempt to put on.

Apart from the weather, the media continues to be obsessed with transgender people and in particular their participation in women's sport. I have always thought that the 'sportsmanship' and 'fair play' has long underpinned participation in sport at either professional and amateur level. As a woman in her 60's I'm old enough to remember the cold war tactics of the Soviet Union and East Germany, who regularly injected  female athletes with male hormones to give them a strength and stamina advantage. 

Here in the UK, the British Triathlon Association have just created an 'open' category so women who have transitioned can compete on a level playing field with similar competitors. In swimming we have a transitioning US swimmer who was nowhere near the qualifying time as a male, yet breezed through it as a female. I have lots of empathy for someone transitioning from Male to Female, but if that person has gone through puberty as a male and has been training for competitive sport as a male, then most of that strength and endurance will be transferred to her when she presents as a female. Even after a prolonged period on female hormones as long as she has continued her training she will have an unfair advantage on cis-gendered competitors. We know this to be true as the USSR and East Germans proved it, it is empirical data and can be quantified. 

Let me be clear this is not about a trans person being barred from competing in sports, in sports such as tennis, athletics, boxing and even golf where strength is an advantage. we should have a third gender class, this would help trans, gender fluid and non-binary people as well. As gender identity becomes more fluid is it not prudent have a third gender category in competitive sport.

To finish on an  upbeat 8 year old Ella Scott has had a gender reveal party thrown for her recently by her parents, Ella has know since she was 6 years old that she was born in the wrong body and has been wearing the clothes of her preferred sex for the last 2 years. I would like to send her my best wishes and congratulate her parents on their support of their daughter. Ella has a long road in front of her, but with parents like Nikki and Graham she should be able to handle anything that life puts in front of her.

Have a great day today and a better one tomorrow

Jenny