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."

10 March 2010

Lesbians In My Future?

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Today Doreen, an advocacy coordinator for SAGE, asked me whether I could spend a day or two in Washington, DC. I would be meeting with other...
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09 March 2010

Without Sleep, Perchance to Dream

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Just another eleven hour day on four hours' sleep. Nothing new here. All right, I'm being dramatic. But I feel that no matter what...
08 March 2010

Still More To Come?

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So...after a weekend in which current and former love figured, it was back to reality. And I'm not talking about the TV shows that, in s...
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07 March 2010

Lost With Memory

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Today I did about two hours of bike riding. I made a couple of stops along the way, including one at a park in Red Hook , Brooklyn. En route...
06 March 2010

Training For What's Next, Whatever It Is

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More training today. For our "homework" last night, we were given a series of questions people might ask out of a variety of motiv...
05 March 2010

Obliging Myself

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Today I did a training with an organization commonly called SAGE. When it was founded, the acronym stood for Services and Advocacy for Gay ...
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03 March 2010

Pouting, Scowling and Glowering, Then and Now

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On Mondays and Wednesdays, I'm teaching two sections of the intro to literature in the class that every student in the college is requir...
02 March 2010

For The One Born In Georgia

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I can't believe more than a month of the semester has already passed. In three weeks, the Spring will "officially" begin; at ...
01 March 2010

If And When Heroes Meet

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I'm not the only one who thinks this semester and winter have been long. "We're only four weeks into the semester, but it feels...
28 February 2010

February Made Us Shiver

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It warmed up to about 45F (7C) today, so much of the snow melted. Still, there was a lot of slush in the streets and there still could be i...
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27 February 2010

What Cats Know About Gender

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Max is climbing all over me again. Earlier, Charlie was doing the same. They've always been very affectionate cats, but ever since I...
26 February 2010

Another Storm

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Yesterday morning, the wind drove the rain and whipped the snow around. That, of course, made the weather seem even colder than it actually...
25 February 2010

From Snow Blindness to a Warm Glow

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Just got in out of the blizzard that's wrapped around this city like a scarf tossed by the wind. From the intersection at the end of m...
24 February 2010

Multiplication

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I really think that paper multiplies. I don't think it reproduces itself through sex--at least, I've never seen that. That leads me ...
23 February 2010

Old, New and Current Beginnings

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Today I didn't go to work. I had a really bad headache all day yesterday and my nose was more congested than the Long Island Expressway ...
22 February 2010

A Face of More Change?

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I've got to get someone to photograph me. Perhaps that sounds vain, but I'm thinking that it might be important. What got me to thi...
21 February 2010

Number 500

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So...It looks like this is my 500th post on this blog. It's just a number, I know. But I didn't envision writing so many posts. A...
20 February 2010

Stranger In A Pizzeria

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Millie came over to my place today. She clipped Charlie's and Max's nails as I held each of them. I made good on my promise to fee...
19 February 2010

A Meeting Yesterday, A Committee From Long Ago

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By the end of the day yesterday, I could just barely keep my eyes open, even when I was standing up. After my classes, I had a meeting with...
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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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