„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…
Schlagwort: transgender
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…