Training wheels

A good analogy for what I am currently experiencing can be explained by the concept of training wheels. When you have constraints as a trans person you are slowed down but also provided with some stability. It is only when you remove them that you realize that you are a bit destabilized until you can power along on your own. Of course this removal has been progressive over several years and not instantaneous, but this recent step has been the most marked.

Combined with adjusting to retirement, it makes for a kind of double whammy effect which takes some adjusting to.

With my life experience as a guide, I know it will take the time that it needs to.