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Category: Transition
Just Checking In
I’m planning a blog entry about AI. But in the meantime I felt there were some other things worth sharing. My life has been reasonable and everything’s been fine with the exception of having too much pain going on. I’m starting a new process where you can essentially do a brain exercises that diverts your…… Continue reading Just Checking In
Transitions
You hear this term a lot from people who are making a change in their presentation to the world. I think there’s a tendency for the unfamiliar to think of transition as just one goal and just one endpoint. The truth is that people transition to find a comfortable existence. There are several terms that…… Continue reading Transitions
But you can’t ever be a real woman (or man)
After my first question to the therapist, can you make this go away, we started talking about things and my primary issue was that I indeed could never be a “real” woman. This is something I’ve had to come to grips with, and it took up a great deal of mental energy at times. It…… Continue reading But you can’t ever be a real woman (or man)
Ten Years and Counting
This is the first of some lookbacks on my first ten years since starting my process. The shortened timeline is as follows: April 2012 – came out to wife and rabbi as transgender and sought help. Shortly thereafter found my therapist for the gender disphoria October 2013 – started hormone replacement therapy March 2014 -…… Continue reading Ten Years and Counting
Seems Like Life Just Goes On
Last fall wasn’t ideal. With a bad side effect from the medicine benztropine, confusion and more, I ended up losing time from November through March. I have very few memories from that time. It took until March for them to identify that I needed to stop the medication. The confusion which had take hold in…… Continue reading Seems Like Life Just Goes On
Stenosis
A word one doesn’t want to hear about their vagina, whether spoken in their head or by a doctor. Stenosis is the narrowing of a structure in the body but in this case I’m referring to my lady parts. The theory is very simple. They create a vagina out of penile and scrotal skin and…… Continue reading Stenosis
How to Pass
Let’s start with what the goal is, you’re a trans woman or trans man and you want to travel through life unhassled by people. To do so you need to fade into the woodwork. My advice is going to be centered around trans women, but it applies as well to trans men. Trans men, generally…… Continue reading How to Pass
Failure
I kept hoping—and hoping that my vagina would turn a corner and start expanding. I’ve been dilating even now, five years after my surgery on a daily basis. All in the hope to get it large enough to accommodate those things one should accommodate. I measured the depth this morning. Not even up to the…… Continue reading Failure
A Scary Moment
People used to tell me how brave I was for transitioning. I’d poo poo that but there was some truth to it, especially viewing it in retrospect. Transitioning is not for the faint of heart – think carefully if you are contemplating it. One of the most scary moments of my life was the morning…… Continue reading A Scary Moment
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