As I am steadily marching towards the next major milestone of my transition I can’t help but sit here wondering what drives me to pursue this procedure? Why do I want this? What are my expectations of going through with this? As those of you closest to me already know, I have decided to have…
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I am a bit new to Twitter having only given it any serious consideration as a platform in the past week, and over the course of this period of time, I have been noticing an interesting and somewhat worrying trend on the anti-trans rights side of things. There are a group of individuals who are…
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Something happened yesterday. Something which struck me down to my core. It was completely unexpected, and it shocked me in a way that I haven’t felt in a long time. It was something so small, seemingly insignificant, yet it stuck with me all day. While I certainly haven’t hidden my discomfort with my voice, it…
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I think the world is inherently binary. Yet I sit here exploring the idea that I am not. As an Engineer, everything in my life can generally be described in a series of True/False statements, a boolean value, a series of ones and zeros — binary. Yet when it comes to gender, the binary system we have…
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It’s been a while since I last shared my thoughts and experiences on these pages. A full month without a post has passed. Sorry about that, I haven’t really felt myself for the better part of six weeks. My hormone levels have been out of bounds ever since my procedure at the end of June.…
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I got to spend some time with my sister this evening, who had a number of interesting theories regarding what I described in my last blog post “Words“. We talked about depression and what I was going through for some time as I struggled to describe to her what exactly I am going through. We…
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Some days the words just flow and quickly form a cohesive thought. Other times it’s like pulling teeth. I love to write, yet some days decoding how I feel and bundling it into a few short paragraphs for you to digest can seem a near impossibility. Despite this love of writing, I often don’t seem…
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I don’t know whether I should talk about this sort of thing via this medium, but writing usually helps me process things and find some form of closure, so here it goes. As the title suggests, I have been feeling rather homesick in recent months. Don’t get me wrong, Las Vegas has been great for…
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Something I have noticed over the past year is that most people seem to think that there is a set order of steps that Transgender individuals must go through as part of their transition. I, of course, can’t speak for all colors of people within our very diverse community, but I can speak to my…
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After months of planning, and meetings with management, I finally came out at work a few weeks ago. Below you will find the letter I wrote. This was shared with everyone in the organization prior to my first day in new clothes. I figured some of you might find this helpful as you draft your…
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