My Unitarian Universalist Church of St. Petersburg was a pleasing place to be a woman, because I was treated better than an average female. My church was a welcoming church of about 150 members. It was LGBTQIA+ friendly.
I passed as a woman everywhere in the Tampa Bay Area, all the time, because there were many more women who looked like me in Florida. Since I didn't try to be sexy, people ignored me.
I wore this dress a few times, including when I went to a special party at the Don Cesar Resort Hotel in St. Petersburg Beach where I danced all night with a gay friend of mine.
Most of my friends, even when I was male for all those years were women and gay men.
I had no real male friends at all. I had nothing in common with men and found it hard to like any.
Now, that I am a woman, my friends are the same.
