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 April 2011

Maryland HB-235: Trans People Thrown Under The Bus, Again

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What is it with LGBT legislation?  It seems that it's only for the L's and the G's. Mind you, I don't believe that legisla...
30 March 2011

Damien Furtch Speaks Up and Out

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What happened to Damian Furtch is terrible.  He was leaving the McDonald's at Sixth Avenue and West Third Street in Manhattan on Saturd...
29 March 2011

Hearing It All Again

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Sometimes it all seems too familiar.  There is a particularly gruesome attack on a transgender person, and the media splashes it all over th...
27 March 2011

Sometimes You Just Have To Ask

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Today I parked my bike in a place where I never before parked it. The funny thing is that it was a place where I used to go almost daily ...
26 March 2011

What I Learned From Geraldine Ferraro

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Is this turning into a blog about famous recently-departed women? Today Geraldine Ferraro died.  If you're reading this, you probably...
25 March 2011

Violence Against Transgenders On The Rise. Why?

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Lately, I've been reading reports and editorials that indicate or imply increasing violence against transgender people.  Some people m...
23 March 2011

R.I.P. Elizabeth Taylor

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As most of the world knows by now, Elizabeth Taylor died today.   As old as I am, I can just barely remember her heyday as an actress--or...
22 March 2011

Please Don't Approach Me As A "T"

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Today two different people approached me to help with something called " Safe Zone " training.  And I reacted in two completely di...
21 March 2011

It's Her Party, So Why Am I The Center of Attention?

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I went to a party a couple of nights ago. For most people that wouldn't be terribly remarkable, I guess.  And, in the scheme of things, ...
17 March 2011

Barie Shortell and Trans Women In Brazil

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At some point, I came to think of late June as gay bashing season.  It seemed that the couple of weeks before and after this city's Prid...
15 March 2011

Found Out!

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At my second job, I haven't talked about my gender history with my students.  I haven't wanted to, in part because I got tired of do...
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14 March 2011

Keeping Our Fingers Crossed

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Normally, my mind glazes over when I see charts full of numbers.  But A.E.Brain has a way of making such things comprehensible.  I'm ha...
13 March 2011

Japan and the Children of Chernobyl

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It seems that things are going from bad to worse in Japan.  Now there's been a meltdown  in one of the nuclear reactors there, and radia...
12 March 2011

How Will Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami Affect Women?

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What's happened in Japan  over the last 48 hours is terrible enough.  Indeed, the earthquake that hit is much stronger than the one that...
11 March 2011

Rose, Thou Are Well

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O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his da...
10 March 2011

Charlie and Lindsay

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Could I be turning into one of those women who finds sexism around every corner?  Could you blame me if I did? Here's a thought I had ...
09 March 2011

Breaking Them

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Today I saw a bumper sticker that said, "I love my country, not my government." When I've traveled overseas, people have told...
07 March 2011

Fading Away

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Lately I find that this blog is about the only place in which I discuss my experiences of having transitioned and gone through the surgery, ...
06 March 2011

Exceeding Their Grasp

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Although the day was almost as mild as yesterday was, I didn't ride.  In fact, I barely got out of my apartment at all.  I wasn't t...
05 March 2011

Charlie and Max on DOMA

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I am not, and have never been, a bleeding-heart liberal.  Everything I believe and know to be true is based on empirical evidence and my own...
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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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