TEA! Indianapolis, IN, USA -- she/her

Hi, I am 67 years old, I lived 50 years in the closet. I use she, her, hers, but when I came out only a very few considered "Binary or non-Binary" with "gender". I lived my life honestly with the caveat that I pretended to be 100% male for those 50 years so now I am gauging my honesty over a lifetime rather than absolutely living my gender ambiguity.

I have been a clown, a drag racer, mechanic, bicycle shop owner, a candidate for US House, a husband, a GM of a radio station, owned a bicycle shop for 44 years, volunteered for probably a dozen organizations, an activist against I69, the owner of a PAC, three Indiana governors in a row knew me by my first name and didn't like me. I have been a bicycle coach for a number of racers. Those were before I transitioned. Since then I have become a nationally known trans burlesque performer semi famous for my blacklight routines, a model, a designer and organizer for BloomingtonTrashion.org. I was a nationally elected Bernie Delegate to the State and National Conventions in 2016. I am currently an elected Delegate in 2018 and now a Precinct committee Chair for the Monroe County Democratic Party. I am a member of Bloomington Stonewall Democrats, an organization that will go public this spring. On Facebook, I am both this persona and my burlesque one, TEA! You will see that persona at facebook.com/tea.tease.