[GZG] SFB to FT??

2 posts ยท Oct 19 2005 to Oct 20 2005

From: Mark & Staci Drake <markandstaci@c...>

Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:07:01 -0500

Subject: [GZG] SFB to FT??

Thanks for the help on this;had Zoe's old page from the wayback machine,plus
Glen Bailey has a few of his SSD's at:

home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=87&subpageid=127965&ck=

Thanks,

From: Alan and Carmel Brain <aebrain@w...>

Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:38:02 +1000

Subject: Re: [GZG] SFB to FT??

> Mark & Staci Drake wrote:

My apologies.

I should really get back to restoring the full site.

But... I've been busy recently. Haven't been able to pull my weight on the GZG
playtest list, nor do much in the way of FT at all.

Just in case anyone couldn't figure it out for themselves, getting one's

external gender corrected, especially with an involuntary and unexpected

start to the process, well, it's hard. I've tried not to let it interfere
overmuch with my already hectic life, but it really is the
most difficult task I've ever attempted. Time-consuming too. *Not*
looking forward to the surgery, just the results afterwards.

I really should have done it voluntarily at 17 rather than 47. It would
have been easier, and the final result a lot better - had society been
different, and the technology of today been around in 1975. But then, I doubt
that my life would have been quite as interesting, even if almost certainly a
lot happier. The first half of my life was an adventure, and

the type of experience only one woman in about 500 has the opportunity to
have. And I have a son, something that would have been impossible. On

balance, I'm glad things happened the way they did.

But I'm even gladder that that part of my life is over now. Normal service
will be resumed as soon as possible, in a few years. Same basic person,
different packaging, and a couple of minor improvements added
:).

Now if the medics could only find out why about 1 in 60,000 of the women

with 46xy chromosomes spontaneously start feminising like I and a few others
have, I'd be a lot happier. Even though it's been a blessing to everyone it's
happened to, it bugs me that there's still no good explanation.