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."

19 October 2008

Younger than Before

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When I was younger, younger than before I never saw the truth hanging from the door And now I'm older see it face to face And now I'...
18 October 2008

Leaving a Movie for the Imagination

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Tonight Dominick and I went to a movie. We lasted through the first twenty minutes or so of Quarantine , a remake of a movie I've never...
17 October 2008

Change, Then and Now

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During the year before I started living full-time as a woman, I had a lot of thoughts about, and flashbacks to, very early in my childhood. ...
15 October 2008

An E-Mail and a Warp In Time

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An e-mail made my day today, even though its tone was sad and rather anxious. Sajidur, who took three classes with me, graduated last year. ...
13 October 2008

From Denials to Uniting

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Today I got to spend some time with Dominick, finally. I don't think we've been together since the school year started. So a season ...
12 October 2008

Lost?

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So today's the "real" Columbus Day. It means, what, that we're celebrating some guy who got lost on his way to India from ...
11 October 2008

The World Didn't End Today

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Late this afternoon, I went out to shop. Not a single cloud hovered in the sky; the breeze flickered the ends of my hair ever so slightly. S...
10 October 2008

A Friendship Between a Man and a Woman

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Today Bruce and I went to a Thai restaurant near his office in Soho for lunch. We often meet on Fridays for lunch, and we'd been to that...
08 October 2008

Nine Months

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Last night I fell asleep in my chair while watching the Presidential debates. That's my excuse for not writing yesterday. I also fell as...
06 October 2008

What the Guys Try

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Another day, another class, another meeting. All right, it doesn't have quite the ring of "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow....
05 October 2008

Denials from Their Child and Grandchild

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Today a sadness set in. I was working on my bike, which can get me meditative sometimes. (As if I need to be more meditative!) It rained las...
04 October 2008

A Prism of Time

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A few weeks ago I signed onto a website called classmates.com. On it are pages for high schools, colleges and other institutions (prisons? m...
03 October 2008

Losing the old game

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Today I was dragged into something kicking and screaming. And I came out, well, on a kick. I don't have classes on Friday, so I wouldn...
02 October 2008

Thursday classes

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Another Thursday, my longest day of the week. On "normal" Thursdays, I have a break in the middle of the day. But today I had a me...
01 October 2008

Grandma's Birthday

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Today I was thinking about my grandmother. Today would've been her 95th birthday. She died only two days after she turned 68. A few year...
30 September 2008

Things I Used To, And Might, Do

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Today I had the day off for a holiday I haven't celebrated in nearly twenty years. And the period of my life during which I observed tha...
28 September 2008

Giving Birth to the Present

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Today I got to talk to Millie in passing. I mentioned that I have purchased a ticket to spend Christmas with Mom and Dad. I think I saw a te...
27 September 2008

Another Adolescence? Wisdom?

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Drizzly and damp. Not quite the stormy day forecast for today. But it's been one of those days that keeps lots of people indoors, or kee...
26 September 2008

Passages and the Rain

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Rain, again. I mean, tonight. It started last night and has fallen nearly all day. And it's supposed to stop and start again tomorrow. I...
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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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