Following my previous posts about gender transition from CAFAB to male, I finally had my appointment with Dr. Vanek at Legacy Clinic on California Street near Montrose in Houston. I’ve been waiting months for this because the earliest new patient appointments for HRT are usually ages after that first, gut-wrenching…
You’re ignorant. I know, it hurts to hear. I’m ignorant too. I’m not talking about not knowing when to use their or there, though. I’m talking about intersections of power and privilege. Our ignorance of lives other than our own. Our soul-deep, fundamental self-absorption, the kind every human–yes, even my…
Following yesterday’s post… My first thought was to follow the WPATH solution of finding a therapist first. Please understand I’m not an expert, and I’m a bit of an anarchist, and my hatred of gatekeepers telling me what I feel and whether it’s valid colors every word I’m about to…
Today is the first day of the rest of my life. That’s true literally every day, but today it feels especially true. Today, I called Legacy Community Health Clinic on Montrose in downtown Houston and made an appointment to see a doctor who can prescribe me Testosterone. I’ve agonized for…
Today’s the Transgender Day of Visibility, and it’s always exciting for me to check out my Facebook feed or Tumblr and spot so many supportive messages for me and my trans siblings. It’s a terrifying world for us most of the time, and I’m not someone who’s especially fearful. Spiders?…
I’ve got a surgery coming up on Monday, March 2nd, as I talked about in my last post, and since tomorrow will be largely dedicated to blood work and the weekend to getting a few last things done, I decided today to get my hair cut. I hadn’t done that…
I’ve had some ups and downs with my health over the course of the past 33 years. Chronic mood disorders have plagued me since I was a child, and I was barely a teen when I first realized my “female” parts hated me–undergoing a unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy at 13 for a…
