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 January 2009

Then and Now: Suffering and Living

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Ok, so some people have been reading this blog after all. And I'm not getting hate messages. I should consider myself lucky. Tomorrow I ...
24 January 2009

The Life of Harvey

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Tonight Dominick and I went to see Milk. Of course, we are both intensely interested in the subject, and I've been a fan of Sean Penn ev...
23 January 2009

The Body of Lessons

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This is depressing. I get the feeling that nobody's been reading my blog lately: I didn't get any hate mail after yesterday's po...
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22 January 2009

Gender Studies Is For Faggots; Why's a White Tranny Woman Teaching Hip-Hop?

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Don't ask how we got on the subject. But Dominick asked an interesting question: Since I began living as Justine, have I ever entered a ...
21 January 2009

What Am I Doing In School?

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Feeling a little under the weather. Got up late, which meant that I missed a workshop at the college. Tonight, the course I taught met for ...
20 January 2009

Aging and Time Passing

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OK. I loved that yellow dress Michelle Obama wore today. But there's no way I could wear it. First of all, that color would never work ...
19 January 2009

Getting to Know People

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I just noticed that the last few posts have been about people, mostly. I don't think I'll write much about others tonight, for I ha...
18 January 2009

Role Model

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Today Dominick and I went to a brunch on Long Island to benefit an organization that, it happens, is located only a few blocks from me. Carm...
17 January 2009

Lifestyle Choices

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Cold and tired again. Well, I guess I have myself to blame for the latter. Some might say that the former is my fault, too, if my increasi...
16 January 2009

Recovering My Voice

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Today I had my first voice lesson. Tom, my coach, is a voice and drama professor at the college. I almost pity him: He's a sweet man...
15 January 2009

Plus Qu'un Peu

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Having to go to faculty meetings makes me feel like a real fool for going to graduate school. However, the one I attended today--for "n...
14 January 2009

Into the Night

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Funny I should mention her... Tonight I was riding my bicycle home from work. I was only a few blocks from home when I saw a petite, youn...
13 January 2009

Passing

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The other night Dominick and I were talking--about the movie ( The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) we'd just seen, our families, our wo...
12 January 2009

A Decision

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To try to solve the dilemma I described yesterday...What did I do? I called Dr. Bowers' office. Robin, with whom I've talked before,...
11 January 2009

Who's Stressing Whom?

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Now the fun begins... Today Mom told me she was "getting a lot of grief" over her promise to let me stay with her after I recover ...
10 January 2009

Synchronicity?

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Another gray, cold day, except that we're getting some snow. It's colder than it's been, so I don't think the snow will turn...
09 January 2009

Males and Females in Hibernation

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I'm so tired. Today reminds me of a lot of days I had during the regular semester: Too much to do, not enough sleep. In between the comp...
08 January 2009

Another Winter Night

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Tonight I rode my bike to and from work. It was the first time I'd done that in, probably, a month. And it's the first time I've...
07 January 2009

Six Months: Deja Vu, A Venir

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Today's the day. Well, the halfway day, anyway. Six months...since I started counting down this year. Six months--181 days--until the da...
06 January 2009

Body and Spirit

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Last night, after I wrote my entry in this blog, I went to Oprah's website. Yes, that Oprah: which other one could I mean? Anyway, I cli...
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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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