I May Have Gotten Myself Into Something A Little More Than I Was Looking For

[VickySGV]

I had received information that there was a Trans* Support Group that was meeting only a few blocks from where I live in the hall of a church that is welcoming to LGBT folks.  The church address is used as the address of an LGBT Community Center.  After trying to E-mail them over a couple of months and getting no response I stopped by the church and asked at its office about the Community Center and was told that a Regional Pride organization rents space for evening meetings from the church, but that they were not on the site during the day and were strictly tenants along with a few other groups.  The church secretary did take my personal card and gave me the web site address which belongs to the parent organization.  I went to their web-site at home and found that while it mentioned the day one place, just below on the time of the next meeting it gave a different date than the Thursday it was supposed to be.  Of course I went on the date it showed, and found out the meeting had been the night before.   By this point, my old detective habits of tracing down organizations kicked me in the tush, and I made a last try at phoning the one phone number on the web-site, but some twist of fate it was answered by a real person, who had gotten my business card at the church, and who told me he had asked another "Board Member" to contact me several days before, but I had not gotten the response.  My business card is an attempt to do some consulting for a variety of groups that would like to include Trans* Folks in things and looks better than it really is just now.  I told the man a little bit about my history and what I was interested in, and he promised to e-mail the other people he had shown the card to immediately and tell them about my desire to get to know them.  He did check and even to his surprise found the date confusion on the site. 

About  20 minutes after I talked to him I did get his E-mail to the others, but his opening line nearly floored me.

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I would like to tell you folks that I think I have found a new Facilitator for the Transgender Support meeting!!

That was not quite what I had talked to him about, but the thought does not scare too badly.  A few hours later, one of the other mail recipients actually got back to me and invited me to their monthly leadership meeting in July which is on a date I can handle.  I just have this feeling that maybe the facilitator for the Trans* group is not Trans* which could cause a problem.  I did go to a service project they were doing for a youth group that was putting on a Queer High School Graduates party and the folks are nice enough, but I can see some ot the group's little weak points.  What the hell am I getting myself into.  I just wanted to go to a group meeting once a month.  WTH.

[Petra Jane]

What do they say? "My drill sergeant told me never to volunteer!" (No, I wasn't in any armed forces, just quoting something).

[Carolyn Marie]

Life is an adventure, Vicky, or a box of chocolates, or, um, something or other.    In any case, if things get weird you can always back away.  Good luck, hon!

Carolyn Marie

[JJ]

Vicky I can't think of a better person to give this apparently disorganized group the guidance and organization they need. So many of us have anxiety issues it doesn't take much for people to become disheartened with a group and drift away. Don't know how good it's going to be for you but  I'm sure you will be a true Godsend for the group

Hugs

Johnny

[Guest Laura Beth]

I was one of the first to discuss the idea of a Trans support group locally with a LGBT group. But I never found out anything more about it for a few months. The organizers said they were trying to find a place to have it and were waiting to hear back from a one place which was the church where they hold the meetings at. I don't attend the meetings on a regular basis because of the leadership and how they run it. There is nothing planned a head of time unless they are showing a movie then discussing it afterwards. Either wise everyone is doing their own thing and they talk about what ever. But I have found that I am not the only one who doesn't attend the group much.