You need to follow the standards of care set out by WPATH. You will have to be living full time for a minimum of a year and on HRT for at least a year if there is no medical reason not to. You will need recommendation letters from a therapist or psychologist plus a medical…… Continue reading Advice on obtaining GCS
Tag: Medicine
Scare
I spent much of the last week in a terribly depressed state, nearly suicidal at times. I was also puzzled as well as being in psychic pain as my depression had been in good control. Not to say I was always cheerful, but I was able to function well. Suddenly I wasn’t and I was…… Continue reading Scare
SRS – Revision – October 2017
I originally talked with my surgeon about having developed a tight spot around eighteen months ago. At the time his advice was to step up on dilation and to use my thumb to put pressure on the scar “ring” that had formed. Unfortunately, nothing I did seemed to make any difference. This was complicated by…… Continue reading SRS – Revision – October 2017
Anti Drama
It’s Sunday evening and I’ve had the last solid food before surgery. Tomorrow is about having a liquid diet interspersed with powerful antibiotics meant to kill every microbe in my gut and other powerful bactericides to kill those on my body. All of which ends with a power, well, I’ll leave the last to your…… Continue reading Anti Drama
UTI Resolved
I called the plastics service yesterday in case the UTI would interfere with surgery and after talking with them went to my doc’s office to have my urine looked at and chat. The bacteria were down to almost nothing and apparently 2x 500mg cipro is a high dose, I was told to just take two…… Continue reading UTI Resolved
UTI Redux
Just when my ducks were lined up. I was feeling a bit off with fasting for Yom Kippur. Not just hungry (not a big deal), not just thirsty (more of a deal) but off. I couldn’t make it through the entire morning service. I did my torah portion with a quavering voice and left about…… Continue reading UTI Redux
Squeezable Me
I was feeling like an over squeezed tube of toothpaste at one point. However, let us go back to the start. I was seeing my endocrinologist and along with the sticker for being a good girl who didn’t cry (I wanted a blue one even those she said pink is for girls, but *I* wanted…… Continue reading Squeezable Me
The Truth when critiquing bigots
I don’t doubt that Congresswoman Hartzler is anti-LGBT, or that she deserves criticism but the headline: Congresswoman: Trans People In The Military As Dangerous As ISIS is not only not a quote, it is a misrepresentation of her stated position. It is true she’s against “transgenders” (her usage) in the military, apparently thinking that Rand’s study was…… Continue reading The Truth when critiquing bigots
Memories 2015 from October to December
Going through from March of 2014 when I went full time to March of 2015 was a hiatus. Things were good at home, but it was a kind of truce. We both knew that once I was eligible for surgery things could change radically. There wasn’t much question in my mind that I wanted the…… Continue reading Memories 2015 from October to December
Future promise
An assertion that seems bound to come true at some point is that reassignment will become a procedure that results in an entirely functional male or female rather than a sterile one. Additionally one that doesn’t require hormone replacement and whose reproductive tissues are direct analogues to what their natal tissues would have been. The…… Continue reading Future promise
My Gifted Life 