From: Alan and Carmel Brain <aebrain@w...>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 04:48:06 +1000
Subject: [GZG] Re: OT Changes and Medical Weirdness
G'day All Um. How the heck do I explain all this? Some of you already know it, but many don't. Towards the end of BSG, it started hitting me where I live. Why? Because on the 4th of May, something weird and still unexplained started happening to me. The first symptom was a full-blown GD (Gender Dysphoria) crisis. That was odd enough, but it happens to a lot of people. They end up changing their sex after years of hormone treatment usually capped by surgery. Then, at about the same time, maybe a little earlier, maybe a little later, the body started changing shape without treatment. Radically. And very very quickly. As I said, it's still unexplained, hormones can't work that fast, and I'm not getting any therapy whatsoever anyway. Please just go read 2 articles (with pictures) on my blog. http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2005/07/facelift.html http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2005/07/good-timing.html I was planning on making the transition in January 2006, after giving the planned HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) time to work, and some necessary facial surgery in November. But my employer had a chat with me today, and confirmed that even with my best efforts, I'm not looking particularly male any more, at least, to people who have known me. Not that I look particularly female either, just more F than M now. She suggested I transition whenever I felt comfy with it. All of my colleagues, from the CEO down, have been immensely supportive, as has my partner, Carmel. So this is a warning to all my friends, gamers etc that my name will