So, the Samaritans didn't accept me, which is not really surprising after everything. I have to admit, I feel happy and relieved not to be going forwards with it, even as I feel pretty angry about how I was treated. But, I can't really do anything about it, so time to move on ( Read more... )

One of the things that being at school is confusing me is the use of Miss and Sir when teachers talk to each other in front of kids (or otherwise). I've been finding it a bit weird and finding it difficult to use and I've been trying to understand why. Then it occurred to me that, as I socialise a lot with trans and gender variant people, it's ( Read more... )

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A post on Facebook about some new research showing that gender variant behaviour in rats could be triggered by dosing the mother during pregnancy with different hormones got quite lively. I wasn't very good about trying to express myself in the article, but there were various opinions that annoyed me and I couldn't understand why. I've been ( Read more... )

One of the things I've been thinking about a lot recently is one of the consequences of the fact that gender and sex are not the same thing and do not have to be related. This is the fact that transsexual people do not have to start off having a gender that does not match their sex. Indeed, there should exist transsexuals who start off, in the ( Read more... )

This post reminded me that at some point I wanted to talk about how sex and gender impact my use of language, and the things I've learnt during transition about using my voice which have caused people to respond to me as either female or male ( Read more... )

Hormones have been on my mind since the GIC indicated they would prescribe them for me. Nothing much has happened on that front since then, even though the time frame promised by the GIC has passed, so I've written them a dry legalese letter basically saying "Oi ( Read more... )

I said before I was angry with the fact that a lot of my life seems to have been dominated by various opinions about what it means to be female which, as I'm discovering, bear no resemblance to my experience or, when I stop to think about it, the reality of other people's experiences. In forming my own ideas about what it means to be female, I've ( Read more... )

I borrowed Superfreakonomics, after liking the original, Freakonomics, quite a lot. Unfortunately, I seem to have mislaid it for the moment, which makes taking it back to the library tricky, but I'm sure it will turn up (eventually ( Read more... )

This post is about my attempt to explain the reasoning, in my last post, about making a decision about taking the hormones. I've only justified it to myself so far, and I'd like to get better at talking about it to other people.

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