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Transitioning from Male to Female after 40

Index

  • Legends of the Fall
  • Merry Christmas 2006
  • Slippery Slope
  • Auld Lang Syne
  • Hormone Treatment in Transsexuals
  • Telling My Doctor
  • Whimsy and Hair
  • Starting Spiro
  • Coffeehouse Discussion
  • Waiting for a Roadblock
  • Writing?
  • Neanderthal Bias?
  • Fast or Slow?
  • Grid
  • Clothing
  • Calm Before Storm?
  • FFS Assessment by Alexandra
  • First Beard Laser
  • Sex Change Operation
  • Trapped
  • Talking while Driving to Albuquerque
  • Body Notes
  • Hair Transplant
  • Hair Gone Missing
  • I Lose my Doctor
  • Free Will vs. Destiny
  • A Pitiful Life of Loss
  • The Future
  • Finding a New Doctor
  • Bosses Day
  • Being a Loser
  • Feels Like Grief
  • Be a Man
  • Where’s that Light at the End of the Tunnel?
  • Buttocks
  • Early 90’s
  • Debra (1991-4)
  • Visiting my New Doctors
  • Cognitive Ice Thawing
  • Light Switch or Dimmer?
  • 26
  • Reweaving Fabric
  • Identity and Loyalty
  • Evolving Relationship
  • Be(Longing)
  • Dread
  • Authentic?
  • Laser on Body
  • Effects of GID
  • Laughing at Myself
  • The Dead
  • Songs for Transition
  • Leaves and Patterns
  • Birthday Gift
  • Indian Summer
  • My Relationship With She’s Not There 
  • Conspicuous Consumption
  • I’m Gonna Zap that Gray Right Out of My Beard
  • Cognition and HRT
  • What is “Transition”?
  • To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before
  • Mass Consciousness
  • Academic Org Chart
  • Flight or Fight?
  • In the Flesh
  • The Slippery Slope
  • Tipping Point
  • Serendipity Doo-Dah
  • Finishing the Letter
  • 2007: The Year of the Trans?
  • Hands
  • How Do I Know?
  • Calendars, Outings, and Drama
  • How to Explain?
  • Trans-fer
  • What is Laser Like?
  • Cisgendered
  • Wig Shopping
  • Facing Change, Changing Face
  • Stuff, Body, and Trust
  • HBS and TS-SI
  • Isolation
  • Making a List, Checking it Twice
  • Self Defense
  • Trans-gendered: Theology, Ministry, and Communities of Faith” by Justin Tanis
  • Makeover at MAC
  • Maratime Reckoning
  • Normalcy
  • Trans-spotting
  • Williamson / Mandela
  • 29
  • The Sick Rose
  • Chinese House
  • About Face
  • Telling the Boys, part 1
  • Telling the Boys, part 2
  • Grief
  • Gossip
  • To All the Men I’ve Loved Before
  • What? Me Worry?
  • Performing Masculinity
  • Transhog Day
  • Out and Down
  • Everything Changes
  • Disclosures
  • Resources
  • Dean
  • Invisible Party Dress
  • Post Office
  • The Feminine Mistake
  • Provost
  • de-transition
  • Ritual
  • Hate/Conformity
  • Wholly Frou-Frou?
  • Please Don’t Share My Umbrella
  • Tapestry
  • Dr. East’s Recommendations
  • Dr. North’s Recommendations
  • True West Tradesmen
  • Minimalist Sex Change
  • Many Roads
  • Thorny Pain
  • Strange Fits of Exuberance
  • Continuities
  • What Others Are Thinking
  • Authentic vs. Legitimate
  • Requesting Legitimacy
  • Love and Meteors
  • In Case We Thought It Was Nothing But Love…
  • Two Views of a Young Transsexual
  • The End of Longing
  • The Wisdom of Children
  • Lines Written a Few Miles from my Hometown
  • Blood is Thicker than Water, part 1
  • Biochemical Puzzle Pieces
  • Electrolysis
  • The Wisdom of Children, part 2
  • Data and Privilege
  • Labor of Love
  • Blood is Thicker than Water, part 2
  • New Personal Style
  • “for the Bible tells me so” — a review
  • Whistle While You Work
  • Changing Avatars
  • Is Blood Thicker than Water?
  • Lots of People in New Orleans
  • Iterative Human Design
  • Blood is Thicker than Water, parts 3-7
  • Fabulous Lifeworld
  • Gender and Technology
  • Send
  • Emotional Writing
  • Trans-it from where to where?
  • Losing my Repression (and I Feel Fine)
  • Becoming
  • Through Sickness, Health and Sex Change
  • Catalyst
  • Inner Child
  • Opening the Door to the Inclusion of Transgender People
  • Suits Me
  • In the Swim of Things
  • Money Changes Everything
  • Stuck
  • Childhood Transsexualism
  • Too Ra Loo
  • New Salesperson
  • Valid
  • First Wave
  • On the High Dive
  • T
  • Beneath the High Dive
  • Round the Clock
  • COLAGE
  • Parting Gift
  • Everybody Knows
  • Carpe Denim (seize the pants!)
  • Wisdom of Children
  • The Force of the Wind
  • Narrative Erasures
  • Personality by the Numbers
  • Room Under the Umbrella
  • Boys Start Therapy
  • Let’s Take Your Reasoning and Run with it
  • Snapshots from a Hometown Visit
  • Father’s Day
  • You Look Good in My Skirt
  • New Swimming Suit
  • Slade In, Slade Out
  • Wish That I Was Jessie’s Girl
  • Cartoon Commentary on Peeing
  • At the Family Table
  • Facing East (part 1)
  • FFS Surgery Day, Tuesday (6/24)
  • FFS Day 1, Wednesday (6/25)
  • FFS Day 2, Thursday (6/26)
  • FFS Day 3, Friday (6/27)
  • FFS Day 4, Saturday (6/28)
  • Trans People in Love
  • FFS Day 5, Sunday (6/29)
  • FFS Day 6, Monday (6/30)
  • 20,000 Pages
  • Local Newspaper Invitation
  • FFS Day 7, Tuesday (7/1)
  • Facing East (part 2)
  • In Transit
  • Demon Eyes
  • Jury Duty
  • Growing up Clueless
  • Nine Ways to Answer a Kid’s Question
  • Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
  • Gender Spectrum as Culprit for Late Transitions
  • Self Definitions
  • Death of Dysphoria
  • Relationship Seedlings
  • Reflection on My Reflection
  • Dark Places
  • Same as it Ever Was?
  • Drab Adventures
  • 52 Things You Can Do for Transgender Equality
  • Friends in High Places
  • Industrial Strength Electrolysis
  • Reap and Sow
  • Naming Power
  • Sow and Reap
  • Just Joyce
  • Gender Expression is for Everybody
  • Repetition
  • Slade Out
  • Naming Change
  • Praying for General Relief
  • Fingerprints
  • Courting Change
  • Cog and Re-cog
  • Lost and Found
  • Surgeonocracy
  • Just Following Regs
  • The Joyce of Naming
  • Changing the M to F
  • Scenes from Social Security
  • Smoother Transitions These Days
  • MD High Court Throws out Anti-Trans Referendum
  • Gender Discrimination Survey
  • Fortune
  • TransLaw
  • 30,000 Pages
  • Big Decision in Schroer Case
  • GRS
  • “Sex Change Hospital” on WE Network
  • Coming Out as a Persuasive Act
  • That’s No Co-Pilot, That’s My Wife
  • If The Shoe Fits
  • Orbits
  • TwitteRhetoric
  • Trans-Elucidating Sex Wage Differences
  • Biographie En Tweets
  • Incognito
  • RadFem Womyn-Only Spaces
  • Power and Truth
  • This is a Photograph of Me
  • Nothing
  • Gender Identity in Obama Administration
  • A Little Help From My Friends
  • Birth
  • Great Expectations
  • Fire
  • Too Much?
  • New Year’s Meme
  • EU Says Trans* Discrimination Unacceptable
  • 40,000 Pages
  • HB538
  • New Chapter
  • The Best Birthday Ever
  • Authority
  • Surgical Intake
  • Integrity
  • Luck
  • The Equipment
  • Remainders
  • Finding My Voice, Threatening My Identity
  • Second Wave Comings-Out
  • Blood is Thicker than Water, part 8
  • Surgery and Wardrobe
  • Flattening
  • Parents
  • Clearing the South Pole
  • Second Wave Disclosures
  • New Me, New Presentation
  • Women’s Responses
  • Among The Women
  • Mary Jo and Joyce: What “Are” We?
  • Awards Ceremony
  • When It’s Over
  • Touch
  • A Guide to Reading the Iowa Court Decision
  • Words of Marriage and Union
  • 50,000 Pages
  • Name and Sex at the FAA
  • Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit at Texas A&M
  • Does it Matter Whether It’s Inside or Outside?
  • GRS a Necessity?
  • Power and Anticipation
  • Joyce-ness and GRS
  • Driving to Trinidad
  • Prep for GRS
  • Surgery Day
  • The Rest of GRS Hospital Stay
  • Arriving At Morning After House
  • This is the Dawning…
  • FAA Bureaucracy and Web Misinformation
  • Gender Issues “Disqualifying Conditions” for FAA
  • New Aviation Medical Visit
  • Knowing at the Morning After House
  • 60,000 Pages
  • Maps and Legends
  • Hot Flashes
  • New Passport
  • FAA Issues Resolved
  • Nothing At All
  • The Pilot’s Scarlet Letter
  • 70,000 Pages
  • Mike and Christine
  • Public Denial
  • Kids and Joyce
  • 80,000 Pages
  • Media Exposure Choices
  • Bible, Trans*, and Identity
  • Lunacy
  • Cold Blast from the Past

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