Chances are we aren’t the first transgender person you’ve met. Very many of us pass largely undetected around you, yes, even in bathrooms and locker rooms and dressing rooms, both male and female. We simply don’t look remarkable. I look like a woman, I don’t look like a guy, act like a guy, dress like…… Continue reading So You’ve Just met one of us
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Overcoming Imperfection
(from Quora) When I came out to my rabbi, after I had stopped sobbing uncontrollably, one of the next things I said was that I could never be a real woman. Some time passed by. A couple of months later I was seeing a therapist for gender dysphoria and expressed the same feeling. My therapist…… Continue reading Overcoming Imperfection
Thoughts on Passing Better
For male to female transgender people it can be a challenge to move through the world. If we can do so with a minimum of trouble we are generally happy. Trouble could be something simple as a harsh look or being called sir by a clerk, or trouble could mean being physically assaulted or worse.…… Continue reading Thoughts on Passing Better
Memories from 2014 – Q2
April and I was finally starting to get used to my new life. But no matter how much it seems to people on the outside like a switch has been flipped, to someone like me it’s more that another hurdle has been passed, a big one for sure, but just another one. I had a…… Continue reading Memories from 2014 – Q2
Memories from 2013 – Q4
With September came the falling away of those last doubts and fears. Testosterone had lost its seductive libidinous power over me. Getting into the endocrinologist at first was driving me to despair: No delays is a forlorn hope. The good news was that my regular therapist and I were all on the same page on…… Continue reading Memories from 2013 – Q4
Memories from 2013 – Q2 & Q3
The following is a few weeks later. Our friend S took me out for some pampering. I’m leaving out the piper’s price, such is life, as protection to guilty and innocent alike. Dear diary, most of today was lovely. My friend S and I went and were made over (you can not quite see it…… Continue reading Memories from 2013 – Q2 & Q3
Memories from 2013 – Q1
As I understand it, it can take awhile for all the receptors to get recharged. I wasn’t surprised that my trans feelings came back with the hormones and the sex drive, and I guess I can honestly say that I missed them since they were part of me. For the last six weeks everything’s been…… Continue reading Memories from 2013 – Q1
Advice on Coming Out
I’ve been doing this for a while. All I’ve concluded is that there is no one right way, but there are plenty of mistakes you can make. Here are some don’ts and do’s. Don’t assume the reaction you get is genuine. People are mostly going to tell you what you want to hear, and that’s true…… Continue reading Advice on Coming Out
First Event
The Boston Area has the distinction of holding the first transgender event of the year. I was actually floored at the banquet last night when they said the attendance was around 800 people. OMG! Lots of locals, but some people flew in too. I’ve been going for four years. This year I primarily went to…… Continue reading First Event
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 