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And my world was rewritten. I saw myself as being part of something not just undesirable but that could be trained out of myself for the sake of another person’s comfort. They “helped” me. Coming from an age of psychology where dogs are only creatures that salivate upon the ring of a bell, now I was […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]