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."

25 December 2014

Merry Christmas!

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Merry Christmas--and thank you for reading this blog! https://www.etsy.com/listing/106320796/merry-christmas-christmas-tree-greeting A ...
24 December 2014

A Spin Of The Wheel Brightens A Child's Christmas

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Yesterday, in my other blog ,  I made light of that lie people tell kids about Santa Claus and his reindeer.  That story may not be true...
23 December 2014

Can The FDA Do What The Roman Catholic Church Can't?

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Ever since the Second Lateran Council of 1139 , the Roman Catholic Church has required priests to be celibate.  We can all see how well tha...
22 December 2014

An Anatomical Fact

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It's something I've noticed ever since I first moved back to New York.  It irked me then, and seems even more maddening now that I...
18 December 2014

Title VII Includes Us Now--For Now

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The US Department of Justice will now interpret Federal law to explicitly prohibit workplace discrimination against transgender people. Y...
17 December 2014

The Day Begins; It Is Dawn--For Whom?

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This semester, I've been teaching early morning classes.  When the term began, I was pedaling in bright, often shadowless, pre-dawn l...
16 December 2014

Paint The Town...Purple

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I have influence in my community.  I am going to prove it: Like nearly all fireboxes, this one was red.  But I used my special powers...
15 December 2014

The Kiss

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I was just in a store where the TV showed some silly show...like Sex and the City without the sex. To counter that, I've decided to p...
14 December 2014

She Can See What He Can't

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Until now, I had never heard of Rod Liddle.  Having heard of him, I'm glad an ocean separates him from me. He's an associate edit...
13 December 2014

Poverty In The LGBT Community

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From Movement Advancement Project
12 December 2014

Their Education, And Mine

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These days, I rarely talk about my gender identity or transition.   After all, my goal in transitioning was to live as a woman, and fo...
11 December 2014

Transphobia Is Hazardous To Our Health

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When some people are bulied, harassed or otherwise intimidated, they become more determined to fight, to move toward their goals, to do wha...
10 December 2014

Lifting The Ban: Will It Fly?

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The day when transgenders can serve in the US Armed Forces seems to be drawing closer.  Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James says as much...
09 December 2014

Now You Don't Need Surgery To Change Your Birth Certificate (At Least, Here In NYC)

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I have some good news today:  Here in New York City, a person won't need to have gender-reassignment surgery to have the gender change...
07 December 2014

Don't Talk To Me About "Bulding Bridges" With The Police

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Now that thug, I mean NYPD Officer,Daniel Pantaleo got away with murder , I mean was acquitted by a grand jury, I don't want to hear an...
04 December 2014

Eric Garner's Killer Not Indicted; Why I Am Upset But Not Surprised

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As you've probably heard by now, a grand jury in Staten Island decided not indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Gar...
03 December 2014

Nothing On Top

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When I was "cross-dressing"--which is to say, when I was dressing for the gender of my mind and spirit, the one in which I now li...
02 December 2014

So Funny I Forgot To Laugh

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01 December 2014

But It's Not A Same Sex Marriage....

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"Gay lovebirds Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza on Saturday when they spiced their festive season with an engagement ceremony (...
30 November 2014

What Was That About Bathrooms?

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As I've mentioned in other posts--as well as a piece I wrote in The Huffington Post -- it seems that every time a city, state, country ...
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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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