Through the past few weeks I have been reflecting on moments in my life that irked me in ways I could never name until now. I remember how in elementary and middle school I felt uncomfortable with my hair being cut too short, or being made to feel more like a boy than my parts […]
Author Archives: Sami
Questioning My Gender
When I first began to seriously realize myself as transgender, it started as an out of body experience. I was doing something I had only ever performed once (with a partner whom I was passionately in love with) and had previously felt an unknown source of unease about. I was acting as a top for […]
Coming Out To Yourself
In the past three weeks since coming out to my partner at the time, I have slowly built a network of trans-friendly people I can talk to if need be. I have talked to a local support group, past lovers, a therapist, distant friends, my doctor, and my housemates. The last being the most difficult […]
Teh Tranz
My name is Sami D. I am a transgender female. From my birth my body has been examined and declared by all to be deficient to some capacity. To be lacking in hormones that I was supposed to have. That I would never be able to have children of my own without special treatment. That […]