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."

01 July 2009

The Last Time; What's Next?

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Today I had lunch with Bruce. It is most likely the last time I will see him before my surgery. One might see it as a "good-bye"...
30 June 2009

Leslie Mora and Jackson Heights

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As much as my life as a woman has brought me so much more joy than living as a man ever did, I realize there is a risk of violence that I ne...
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One Week To Go

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Exactly one week from today, I will be undergoing my gender reassignment surgery. In four days, on my birthday, I will go to Colorado, wher...
29 June 2009

More About What I Can And Can't Blame On The Hormones

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S logged through this day. Had a headache that started yesterday. The doctor says it's probably due to the reduction in my hormone dos...
28 June 2009

Pride

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Here is an e-mail I've just sent to Sonia: Howzya doin? Looks like we have something in common...We're both getting ready to leave o...
27 June 2009

No Gesture is Necessary, Only a Message

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Now it's one week until I leave for Colorado; ten days till my surgery. Talk about "blink-of-an-eye" time frames! I am thinki...
26 June 2009

Hallucination? Blame the hormones!

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One more week and one more day till I get on the plane to go to Colorado...and go mountain biking and snowboarding! ;-) It seems to have rai...
25 June 2009

A Scandal and Two Tragedies

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OK...Today we have two tragedies and one scandal to choose from. First, the scandal: Mark Sanford, the Governor of South Carolina, disappe...
24 June 2009

On Leaving, And An Open Letter to My Brother

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My students had their final exam today. After they finished, I went to my office and began to read a few of them. The truth is, I didn...
23 June 2009

Drugs and Other Changes

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Now my surgery is only two weeks away. Fourteen days...each one seems to go faster than the previous one. Today's also the day my medic...
22 June 2009

The Right to be Sexual; The Need to Be

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Yesterday, my friend Sonia Pressman-Fuentes forwarded me a Times article about the leadership of the gay-rights movements. You can read it ...
21 June 2009

Time, Again

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Am I looking forward? Biding my time? Rain again this morning, and late this afternoon. Officially, it's the first day of summer. But...
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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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