I mailed my name change paperwork off today. For some ridiculous reason, they still take six to eight weeks to process these things, so the leaves will be turning by the time my name change is done.
In Ontario, I can get my gender changed on my driver’s license with a letter from my doctor, so [...]

Last night, as he was going to sleep, my son J. asked me “how do you know you want to become a girl?”
I replied “I know that I need to be girl. I’ve always wanted to be girl. Even at your age, I knew that I wanted to be girl. Some people—but not many—are born [...]

Everything was coming together. The two-plus years since I started coming out have been cataclysmic. I’ve been one of those messy, crazy, crisis trannies in a lot of ways, though I worked as hard as I could to stay in control. It just unfolded as a crisis.
So, after more than two years—losing my marriage but [...]

Let’s talk about testosterone’s loathsome presence (to me!) in my bloodstream again (thanks to my inflamed liver), and all the changes in my body that I can feel most keenly in reverse.
My body hair is back. Once again, when in the shower holding the razor, I need to remember whether it’s lower-back-to-feet day or tummy-to-hands [...]