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Today, exactly two months and one day after my masculinizing mastectomy, I finally went back to the swimming pool and trained bare-chested, wearing a man’s Speedo for the first time in my adult life!  It felt great!  It also felt weird — it’s still so unfamiliar to me… And I still feel vulnerable and exposed,Continue reading “The boy’s first swim!”

I’m very tired. Fortunately, a relaxed type of tired now, but tired nonetheless. The past two or three days have been particularly intense.  For the first time in months, I am feeling really comfortable and safe and at home in the place where I am staying.  After the climax of domestic abuse from my housemateContinue reading “Reveling in my “bro time””

I want to state this for the record.  Two days ago, on Thursday, for the first (& hopefully last) time in my life I called the “domestic violence/abuse hotline”.  After months of verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse, on Thursday morning my housemate actually became physically threatening and her transphobia mixed with general disrespect towards meContinue reading “Domestic abuse”

[Spoiler alert: details, including the ending, of the film “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” are mentioned quite explicitly.] In the past week, I have been binge-watching the film “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”.  I sometimes do this, with songs as well as with movies: I go through phases ofContinue reading ““The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society””

Yesterday, I had one of the loveliest and most wonderful celebratory moments of my life. At the crag. A dream of decades come true: I climbed totally bare-chested amidst several other people, without hiding anything. And I didn’t do it discretely: I did it loud and proud — heck, yeah!  After eight weeks of noContinue reading “Striptease of liberation at the crag!”

Two news clips from last night that I found really troubling, upsetting, concerning, and even quite infuriating:  https://www.npr.org/2023/03/15/1163670457/abortion-pill-kacsmaryk-mifepristone-texas https://www.npr.org/2023/03/15/1163733442/wellesley-students-vote-for-the-school-to-accept-trans-and-nonbinary-applicants

It’s amazing how much the ability to be active in my body again has brought me back to life in the past two days.  I had had glimpses of this wonderful feeling again with the visit of one climbing buddy who took us to explore a National Park three weeks after my surgery and thenContinue reading “Back in my body, Back to life”

It’s hard to put into words the joy I am feeling in this moment. I’m almost besides myself with joy.  The boy is running!  I’m a trans athlete!  The boy is running, I’m a trans athlete, and I’m ready to let the body-hair come!  Today I went for my first post-op run: my first runContinue reading “Let the body-hair come!”

There are several verses of the song “I am woman (hear me roar)” that I relate to deeply, and the title/refrain has often resonated with me, albeit it changing it slightly, sometimes.  Sometimes, due to my upbringing & past experiences, I’ve resonated with the original, “I am woman, Hear me roar”.  At other times, I’veContinue reading ““I am me, Hear me roar!””