I just watched Will & Harper on Netflix. Spoilers ahead. Do not read on if you want to avoid them. It was … Beautiful. Funny. Heartwarming. Heartbreaking. All of that, and more. So much has been said, probably better than I ever could, about this documentary.
Due to a bit of a SNAFU with my insurance approval, it became necessary to reschedule my upcoming gender affirming surgery. It seems that the insurance approval was only valid for a specific period of time. In this case, that period of time was 2 months.
Recently, I came across a piece that Julia Serano published on the topic of “male socialization” and how that is wielded as a weapon against women like me. The piece is from November of 2023.
I’ve been stressing a lot recently, and as a result, stimming quite a bit. I usually have some sort of stimming object near me. I have a stress ball on my desk, and have a tendency to just trace the outline of my phone case where it has an opening for the camera.
I highly recommend this site, for both cis and trans people. The page I linked below is mostly for people with “little to no prior knowledge of what it means to be transgender.”
Yesterday, I received a call from the cardiology clinic. Anesthesiology had contacted them to obtain a clearance for that upcoming, not yet scheduled, surgery.
I am a well educated woman, a lesbian, and an eclectic Pagan. I am loving and giving. I am a caretaker type, who often fails miserably at self care. I have fibromyalgia, seizure disorder, and AFib.
I am complex, complicated, and worth the effort.
An Aging Trans Woman 