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My Experience Updating Gender Marker at SSA
25 JanDespite the Executive Order making me non-existent in the eyes of the US Federal government, I persist. This past Wednesday, two days after that order, I ventured into my local Social Security office to update my gender marker. There is no real point to doing so at this stage of my life, other than as a gesture of resistance to hatred.
Continue readingExploring Viral Reactions: A Meme’s Impact on Social Awareness
12 Dec
I posted a meme today over on my Mastodon account, and wow did it go viral!
Continue readingThe Threats to Transgender Healthcare Under Trump
10 DecAllow me to share a couple of articles. You should really read them if you have any doubt of the danger we face. The incoming Trump administration is intending to “eradicate trans people.” This isn’t news. They’ve been saying it openly for a couple of years now.
Continue readingUpdating Gender Markers on Passports: A Personal Journey
8 DecA few weeks ago, I shared that I had applied for a passport renewal. The application included changing my gender marker to F, while it is still possible to do so. There’s strong reason to believe that option will be taken from people like me once Trump takes office. He is well-known for his animus toward transgender people.
Continue readingPost-Op Challenges: Insights from My Experience
18 NovI am cautiously hopeful that after today, there will be nothing interesting left to say about the surgical complications. These involved the past almost three weeks.
Continue readingFacing Surgery: A Spoonie’s Experience
24 OctThis time next Thursday, 31-Oct, I will be in the hospital. I am scheduled then for that gender affirming surgery I have been blabbering on about. I’m surprisingly calm about the whole event now.
Continue readingMy Unexpected Vaccine Encounter and Its Lessons
11 OctI went today to get my Covid and flu vaccines. The pharmacy was surprisingly busy for mid-day. I wasn’t the only one there for vaccines either.
Continue readingExploring Friendship and Trans Identity in ‘Will & Harper’
28 SepI 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.
Continue readingUnderstanding My Trans Journey
27 SepI’ve signed off many posts on my blog with the sentence “The journey continues.” It’s time I expounded a bit on the meaning behind that.
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An Aging Trans Woman 