[Blog] T-time: Prologue
I used to insist that I wasn't interested in going on testosterone. Vocal changes were 'a dealbreaker', I 'didn't really want to', it was something I only gave consideration for 'all the wrong reasons'. Anyway, I'm hopefully starting T in a month or two! I'm very, very excited. - For a long time, I very much treated it like I needed to be This Trans To Ride The T-Train. Or, at times, like maybe if I rode the T-Train, it would deliver me to the destination of finally being This Trans. I knew the latter was a terrible reason to pursue physical transition, and it took me a very long time to realise that someone like me (read: only nominally masc, mostly likes their body, not even particularly dysphoric) was not doing gender crimes by claiming to have some kind of gender going on? Like, when your gender situation is 'a bone deep longing to be allowed to play in the entire pool, unconstrained, a playful little shapeshifter', it's easy f...