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 March 2011

The Look

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I can tell them from a mile away.  They're the ones who want to take you aside to talk to you.  They think they're doing something w...
28 February 2011

Carved In Granite?

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Two years ago, New Hampshire became the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Now state Representatives David Bates and Leo Pepino are...
27 February 2011

Not Moving After All--Not Yet, Anyway

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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was thinking of moving in with a woman I know.  Well, at least I thought I knew her.  Or, more pre...
26 February 2011

Subduing Corruption and Vice

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We never get a break, do we? First we're blamed for leading men into perdition, or simply making things complicated.    That's ho...
25 February 2011

Where Is Kye Allums?

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It occurs to me just now that I haven't heard anything about Kye Allums in a while.   Perhaps you haven't heard anything about h...
24 February 2011

No Move, At Least Not Now

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I've decided that I'm not moving in with her after all.  She did a couple of things that confirmed a couple of things I'd suspe...
23 February 2011

DOMA: Defense of What?

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Imagine this: According to the laws of your state, you are married.  But, according to the Federal government, you're not. For anyone c...
22 February 2011

A Day For Celebrating Our Real Beauty

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The college in which I've been moonlighting is going to have an event called "Beauty Day," in conjunction with Women's His...
21 February 2011

A Victim Or An Accuser?

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When is a victim an accuser? She is when the crime against her is rape, stalking or domestic violence. At least,  that will be the case  ...
20 February 2011

On Current Events

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I've been holding off on saying anything about the developments in Egypt, Bahrain and Wisconsin. There are more issues involved than the...
19 February 2011

This Doesn't Change: Conflicting Advice

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It almost goes without saying that a gender "transition" involves changes as great in number and degree as most people are likely ...
17 February 2011

Finding Out About Lola

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Today I heard the Kinks' Lola on the radio.  That, in itself, is not so unusual:  "oldies" and "classic rock" statio...
16 February 2011

The Art Of Gender And Prestige

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Writing about newsboys and news carriers (Carriers?  I thought they had to do with diseases!) got me to thinking about what happens to jobs ...
14 February 2011

Carriers Of News

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Today I was drifting aimlessly in cyberspace when I really should have been doing other things.  And, somehow, I came upon this: Someone...
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13 February 2011

Another Disappearing Tranny?

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My relationship to my past is changing.  I've been thinking of moving in with someone who's not a lover or relative.  And I notice m...
12 February 2011

Walking With Our Heads Up

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After reading Diana's post today, I checked out one of the links she provided. That there is discrimination against transgender peo...
11 February 2011

Turning Sepia or Chiaroscuro

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"Sophia" had an interesting response to my post " Giving Up What I Never Had ." On her blog, she describes " A Li...
10 February 2011

What Do I Do Now?

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Yesterday I was actually starting to like the idea of moving.  Well, I wasn't thinking so much of moving as I was of being in an apartme...
09 February 2011

Into More Light?

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I don't know whether I have become more photosensitive after hormones and surgery.  Lately it's seemed that way.  I've been real...
07 February 2011

Agoraphobia

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I'd been avoiding Sara .  Actually, I'd been avoiding her friend, too, perhaps even more than I'd been avoiding her.  But she so...
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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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