Every now and then there are life situations or circumstances where I find it very difficult to imagine that the average given there is actually the real average. The table in the information brochure on hormone replacement therapy for trans people is one of these situations. According to many, the first physical changes caused by…
Schlagwort: being trans
Interlude
This blog is now more than a year old. Congratulations to myself, I am astonished that I made it this far. At the same time, I have to admit that the blog is currently falling short. My previous rhythm of every fortnight seems unthinkable and even though I still have so much to think about,…
(Never) lose yourself
Somewhere between two small towns (and a lot of more villages), my brain slowly began to realise what I had experienced that morning. It started with packing my bag, driving to the main station and from there my reality enfolded itself into a two-hour nightmare of cancelled or delayed and overcrowded trains, discussions with taxi…
Artsy thoughts about medical referrals – In musing mood
„Please bring a referral letter“, „Do you know if you need a referral?“ and my favourite: „Don’t forget your ‘Ü-Schein!’ (which is a hilarious sounding abbreviation for the German translation). I almost felt like a young boy who was desperately waiting for an owl to save him from the dark closet under the staircase… Four…
Therapy: round and round and round it goes
I thought long and hard about writing this post and then even longer about publishing it, simply because I don’t want the narrative of „suffering“ trans people to be exploited even more. More than that, I could never imagine that I would ever have anything to contribute to the topic. Neither would I classify my…
Dysphoria has changed?
I don’t know exactly when it happened, but sometime this year my dysphoria changed. The desire for physical change multiplied many times over. Why? I don’t know. Maybe it was July, when I traded my decades-long asexuality for a demisexuality and discovered my libido. Or maybe it was the day all my friends partied at…
„When did you know?!“
„When did you realise that you were trans?“ is a question that I personally haven’t been asked very often, but it’s one that the media likes to throw around every now and then. On the one hand, I can understand the curiosity of cis-people, on the other hand, I have always had to sigh when…