Transwoman Times


From Justine Valinotti: the life of a transwoman.

I began this blog on 7 July 2008 to recount some of my thoughts, feelings and actions, as well as medical events, of the year leading up to my GRS/SRS.

On 7 July 2009, Dr. Marci Bowers very successfully performed my surgery.

In the early days of my recovery, I decided to continue this blog to describe what I experience and learn as I begin to live as a "new woman."

25 August 2008

The Last Summer

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Another summer's winding down. But not without a fight. Today was pretty warm, but very humid. This isn't quite late enough for the ...
24 August 2008

Sleep and Dreams

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Got up late; got out late. I guess I shouldn't feel too guilty: after all, it's Sunday. Strange, that at age fifty, I find myself go...
22 August 2008

Tastes

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What're we gonna write about tonight, Brain? The same thing we write about every night.... It's tranny and the blog, Tranny and the ...
21 August 2008

"You're So Sensitive"

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Let's see...Today I've been called "sensitive" four times: once with a positive connotation, two other times negatively an...
20 August 2008

Illusions

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Today I went to the college for the meeting and faculty development workshop. Riding my bike there was great: A cool breeze tossed my hair a...
18 August 2008

Let's Go, Already! KISS

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Not much accomplished today. Oh well. I've still got another day of freedom left. On Wednesday, I have to go to a professional developme...
17 August 2008

Who Knew It Would Come To This?

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OK, so what did I do on a wonderfully gorgeous Sunday that wasn't too hot? You guessed it: I went for a bike ride: To Nyack and back, a...
16 August 2008

40 Turns 50

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Forty days and forty nights... Of course nearly everyone in the western (and much of the non-western) world thinks of the Bible and the Floo...
15 August 2008

Talk to Me; Make Me Pretty

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Today I took a break from electrolysis. Three days in a row...I didn't think I'd get through the first session. But I'm going fo...
14 August 2008

The New Job--Meet the Old Job

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Today I was thinking about the job I'm about to start next week. To tell you the truth, I was feeling angry about it. For one thing, I w...
13 August 2008

In Love

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Last night I was with Dominick. Yes, he was there for me after I was having chin-hairs pulled out and zapped by two gorgeous blonde women. O...
11 August 2008

Pink Moon

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It's a pink, pink, pink, pink mooon......... Oh, I could listen to that song all day. That line seems so light and carefree--so uncharac...
10 August 2008

Home Again

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Charlie and Max can't get enough of me. That's how it's seemed since I got home last night. I don't mind; in fact, I never m...
08 August 2008

Leaving for the Rest of My Life

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Tomorrow I'll be headed back to New York. As you can imagine, I have very mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I want to get back to ...
06 August 2008

The Woman Becomes a Daughter?

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This morning I got to say "hello" to my mother's friend, Lee. She'd come to pick up Mom so they could visit the family of ...
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04 August 2008

Another Journey

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Turns out that Mom hadn't gone to church after all. She'd gone to the store, and after she got back, she and Dad and I had blueberry...
03 August 2008

The Silence

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Mom has gone to church. She does that every Sunday morning. I know Dad is awake because I hear him coughing. It's that nagging, hackin...
01 August 2008

Visiting Mom and Dad

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I'm taking a break from packing for the trip I'm about to take tomorrow. I'm anxious, in every sense of the word, about it: I am...
31 July 2008

Zap that Beard!

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It's hard for me to believe now that I had a beard, on and off, for about twenty years. Just as there are people in my life now who hav...
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Justine Valinotti


Here I've come.

A journey that neither I nor anyone else could have foreseen has brought me here today.

You can follow this journey on my blogs: "Mid-Life Cycling" and "Transwoman Times." I am also serializing a book on another blog, "Memories and Those Who Stayed."
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