Today was a special day on my calendar. Peganthyrus' Birthday. Twenty years ago, one of the wizzes on Furrymuck @newchar'ed her for me. What started as kind of a joke became an identity that would end up being all-encompassing for me; when I transitioned, I tried a few names, but it was pretty inevitable that I'd settle on a name that shortened to Peggy, just like hers did.
I never noted the exact day I decided to start transitioning. So I can't celebrate that day like some people do. It was somewhere in the end of summer around 2001-4. But I can log onto Furrymuck and type “examine me” to get a solid date on creating the first female identity I'd spend time as. And that's good enough.
I don't make a big deal out of the day. Ever since my father died on my twelfth birthday, birthdays lost their magic for me. I tried doing something for Peggy's Birthday a few times but my heart was never in it.
Anyway. Twenty years ago, I started pretending to be a black dragon lady on the Internet. Which eventually lead to me realizing I was much more comfortable in a female identity, and even more eventually starting to do something about that.
(And I must confess that I feel faintly annoyed that the day before is now the Transgender Day Of Rememberance. Yay! Let's think about all the dead trans people the day before the day I pegged as my own Trans Anniversary Day! Because even after fleeing from my original birthday after it became the day I was plunged into a twenty-year-long depression when my father died on it, I still have to think about death on the new one. THANKS EVERYONE. Not that this spoiled any major party or anything, I spent the day mostly just hiding in the living room playing Fallout 4.)
I think I have a potential solution—have an ‘official’ Peggyday, relocated to a more suitable time of year, and have the celebrations then rather than on the actual Peggyday. Plus, you’d one up Queen Elizabeth II, the current UK monarch, who only has the two birthdays. In yer face, Liz! ;P
PS: Can you guess that I’m not a monarchist? ;)
PPS: I’m posting this under my fem alias that I use over in Second Life, and a few other places. I’ve only been Spitfire for about 10 months, but it has been a helpful experience for me. Whether it leads to real-life changes, well, that’s still up in the air. But you got a fan here, Miss Dragon-Lady. :)