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Maisie × Estrogen
Published: 2022-05-03
Preface This is intended as a living (i.e., constantly updated) guide documenting all the changes, effects and feelings I’ve experience while undergoing hormone replacement therapy in the first few years of my medical transition. The guide is meant to present how I feel throughout as-is, and will try and reflect on other things that may have helped cause or enhance these effects. I think in transfem circles, there’s often a big emphasis on how important estrogen is, its effects, and the timing
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Trans Visibility, And One Year Out
Published: 2022-03-31
Reflecting on a busy and spectacular year full of changes, as well as discussing what it means to be visible.
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How I Worked Out I Was Trans
Published: 2022-02-24
Warning: this post talks about some of my dysphoria, however I don’t go into a lot of detail. A quick timeline as an overview: * 2015 - 2018: got meeting trans people at university, realised being trans is a thing * 2019: seeing trans people share their transitions on social media, realising that, hey actually, this is something attainable and something I’d want! * March 2020: start of lockdown, move home. shave off beard and really love how it looks. start having a proper gender c
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We Don’t Do Valentine’s
Published: 2022-02-14
My relationship with my partner, Izzy, is not the most orthodox. We first met on Twitter about eleven(?) years ago, through a shared interest in the video game, Portal. We spent the next six or so years becoming really close internet friends, helping each other through difficult times and hanging out and playing video games together online. Eventually, in 2018, she came to visit me in London and we went to a folk concert together. We rapidly realised we both had feelings beyond just good frien
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Twenty-Twenty One
Published: 2021-12-30
It’s really tricky to try and sum up such a year as 2021. Amongst the constant anxiety, stress and sadness from living through a once-in-a-generation* global pandemic, I’ve been really fortunate in feeling the most alive I’ve ever felt. If I had to sum up my year in one word, it would be: foundational. I feel like there’s a lot that’s happened that will set me up for an even better future. * I mean, climate change will probably mean more pandemics, as natural habitats fail and wild animals acti
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