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."

15 April 2009

Who Should Play Transgendered People? How Sould They Be Played?

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Today I stumbled over a blog I plan to check out every chance I get. It's called "Femulate," and bills itself as "the web...
14 April 2009

Did They Ever Imagine This?

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Another rainy day in April. What else is new? Today there was a tornado watch where my parents live. Although I know I probably would have h...
13 April 2009

I Passed Two Tests Today. Do I Get $4000 for That?

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Today, like yesterday, was clear, breezy and cold for this time of year. Unlike yesterday, however, today was a day of preparing for my surg...
12 April 2009

Easter: Food and Movies Today, The Doctor Tomorrow

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Easter Sunday...My last before the surgery. It's ironic that Bruce has told me that my transition "resurrected" me. Now I'...
11 April 2009

Advice to a Cross-Dresser; The Ten Commandments

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Today I was reading an article from The Independent by Neil Straus. He described his expereince with a survivalist camp run by a couple of g...
10 April 2009

A Meeting...For What?

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Today my department chair said she wants to have "a brief meeting" with me after I return from Spring recess. Hmm.... She sent tha...
09 April 2009

Can You Get Over the Fear of Sleep?

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I can't help but to think about being under anaesthesia for my surgery. Is it odd that I'm more worried about that aspect of my surg...
08 April 2009

Spring Break; The Point Is...

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Spring recess is about to start. I can't wait. I warned my students, especially the freshmen in my composition class, that there will be...
07 April 2009

Three More Months; Strange Bedfellows

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My surgery is three months--91 days--from today. The funny thing is that today I had less of a sense than I had yesterday that some things i...
06 April 2009

One Step Closer: Where Will I Wake Up?

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One more meeting. Today my department had its penultimate meeting of this academic year. One more to go...until my surgery. It seems lately ...
05 April 2009

Palm Sunday

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Today is Palm Sunday. I can remember when this day would begin a week of going to church twice a day with my Catholic school classmates. Eve...
04 April 2009

Opening In The Wind

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"Winter's coming!" That's what Johnny, Millie's husband, exclaimed when I saw him by his car this evening. The wind wh...
02 April 2009

Changing Clothes

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Tonight I am doing yet another thing that I'm most likely doing for the last time in my current life. It's really exciting: I'm ...
01 April 2009

Sleep and Dreams

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I was just talking to Dominick. He told me I should go to bed because he was tired. Well, OK, it wasn't quite like that. He said he was ...
31 March 2009

M'illumno D'immenso

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Today looked like a spring day, but didn't quite feel the part. It may've had to do with the hint of chill in the air that turned in...
30 March 2009

Ghosts Don't Blush

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Today I went someplace I haven't been in many years--ten, to be specific. I'd gone to the New York City College of Technology to tak...
29 March 2009

One Hundred Days To Go

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Barack Obama is still in his First Hundred Days. Tomorrow I will start my last hundred days. That's right: It's only one hundred day...
28 March 2009

You're Not Adopted

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Someone once asked Anne Coulter what she would do if her son told her he was gay. "I'd tell him he was adopted," she snapped b...
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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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