Yesterday I wrote a post about big companies rolling back their inclusiveness policies in the wake of the Trump administration’s attack on diversity (The Perfidious Retreat from Inclusivity).

I automatically post to BlueSky (because the connector works), but I also posted to the other social networks I am on: Reddit, Discord, Instagram, and Quora. Hopefully I didn’t annoy anybody who is also on all of those platforms.

Unusually, I also posted to Facebook – the profile that my friends and relatives see.

Last year, on the anniversary of a big overdose that landed me in hospital, I posted to my friends and family Facebook details of what happened that day and a little bit of why it happened. They know that I am non-binary and that I have had some identity-affirming surgery. I say they know – they know if they read that first post.

In yesterday’s post, I said “as someone with a non-binary gender identity – specifically, as a eunuch.”

I don’t know how many of my friends and family actually read it; I guess it was a long read. I didn’t get much feedback on it.

I feel a little anxious about what people think about what I wrote, and a little disappointed that so few people commented or liked it. Perhaps it just wasn’t very good? Perhaps Facebook actually isn’t a good platform for sharing text-heavy posts?

However, it does mean that I may have come out as a eunuch to everybody I know.

That’s only my dad who doesn’t know. I wonder how long that will last? I should probably tell him myself sometime!

I do feel very nervous about telling my dad. I am highly conflicted about whether it is worth telling him and apprehensive about how he would react.