Trans Life

TRANS LIFE is what life is like existing as a trans person. Much of these will be about my specific experience as a trans woman in the United States, but plenty of it also applies to all trans/nonbinary/gender-nonconforming people in general.

2022 US Trans Survey results, part 1
2022 US Trans Survey results, part 2
The 2024 Election Results: Where Do We Go From Here?
Anecdotal Trans Healthcare
Birthdays (why they can be difficult, a letter to little Tilly)
Bodily Autonomy (and my tattoo)
Bureaucracy (inclusive, and how much it helps)
Bureaucracy (discriminatory, and the harm it causes)
Body Hair
Clothes (how gendered they are, and pockets/buttons)
Compliments (and how they change with transition)
Confidence (lack thereof pre-transition, how it changed after)
Confidence 2 (into the unknown, transition changed public events for me)
The Constant Fight (of existing while trans)
The Erasure of Trans Men
The False Dichotomy (of society)
Finding Our Trans Style
Freedom (and underwear?!)
Freeing Up My Brain (lack of dysphoria and lunch with Tilly)
Gendered Childhoods
Hair (and how it relates to gender)
Hair 2 (my first real haircut, and how it helped me find me)
Internalized Transphobia
Motivation (needing to be your true self helps you achieve wonders)
No Escape (from deadname and reminders I’m trans)
No Escape 2: Some Escape (due to cis allyship)
A Pandemic Transition
Parents Who Will Never Know the Real You (my dad)
The Past (and how it can haunt trans people)
The Past 2: the New Past (KJ, Paper Girls, finding our own rep)
The Past 3: Trans Grief 1 (the New Past 2A, Trans People and AI)
The Past 4: Trans Grief 2 (the New Past 2B, Trans People and AI)
Patience (HRT, transitioning is a process)
Photos and Reflections (and why they can be difficult)
Photos 2: The Selfie Apocalypse (the new gender dysphoria/euphoria)
Privilege (time and money)
Rainbow Capitalism
Searching for Meaning (when you’re trans and don’t know it)
The Signs Were Always There (that we’re trans)
TERFs
Trans Healthcare (or lack thereof)
Trans Microaggressions
Trans Parents (Mother’s Day)
Trans Politics 1: Stop Tolerating Transphobia
Trans Politics 2: You Must Vote to Protect Us
A Trans Re-wedding
Transition Setbacks
Transmedicalism (and WPATH soc 1)
Transphobia is Always With Us (that old dysphoric feeling)
Unexpected Bonuses of Transition
Unexpected Changes from Transition
Voice 1 (how binary-gendered & sexist voice and speech can be)
Voice 2 (finding your true voice)
Voice 3 (interview with a speech-language pathologist, tips and pitfalls, the science of voice)