When you take out your new razor to shave for the first time in your life.
Autistic, Trans, Gay, What Else You Got?
When you try hitting a high note you know you’ve sung before, and literally NO SOUND comes out of your mouth.
When new hairs growing on your arms and legs are darker than your chin whiskers, the buggers.
When most of your coworkers know about your transitioning, but not the entire building, so one of the techs recently finds out and proceeds to…
When your mastectomy surgeon draws a diagram and explains step-by-step how the procedure works, and it’s different from what you imagined, but interesting. Still leaves…
When you’ve done your part, gotten your appointments and psychology letters together and done, but some technological or other glitch on the doctor’s end creates…
When your lower voice tricks your head into thinking you’re not speaking loud enough for people to hear you, so you force it even louder…
When you do a double-take on a new change (such as finding dark hairs a cm long), and wonder when the hell THAT happened.
When you acknowledge that your body odor is changing, and also that it’s pretty rank when you exercise.
When, for a brief moment, you see the man you really are in the mirror, and there are no words to describe the encounter.