I have been MIA from public life for a while. I went through every emotion under the sun in the lead up to surgery and I was ridiculously busy. The surgeries have begun and I have been in various states of drowsiness, pain and internal reflection since then. Although there are many more surgeries ahead than behind me, I feel I’ve already come a very long way. Most of the remaining one will be less invasive than the first.
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To my parents’ credit I was able to dress and interact with the world through out my childhood similarly as I do now. They taught me growing up that anyone could do whatever they wanted in terms of hobby and job regardless of their sex. Why than, my mother asked, did I transition? I did because of that inconvenient or troubling phenomenon so often denied, overlooked or dismissed: dysphoria. Read the full story