No more Transformal

It's official.

This year, 2018,  was the last Transformal. After nine years it has gone into hibernation, possibly for ever.

I attended every year from 2012, seven times in all.

I had a great time at each one but perhaps it is for the best that it quit while it was ahead. It would have been very sad to see it fade away due to lack of interest. That said, this year was the best attended yet and had the greatest number of supportive family members attend of any year.

The organisor has had enough and chose not to allow others to carry it on for fear of sullying the good reputation. I have to agree with her decision.

These events are appealing to a shrinking market worldwide. Seems a bit counter intuitive seeing the emergence of awareness re trans issues these last few years but the truth is we can go anywhere and do almost anything we please without fear so the need for discretion has been somewhat alleviated.

We did not know it at the time but this was to be the very last Transformal group photograph.
 Taken this year, 2018.

Jan xx.