I need to come out officially about my recent SRS, so I can present some information to the community in
this topic.
I chose to not widely announce my SRS, preferring to just keep it with a few close people. While there are some here who wrote up their experience in an egalitarian fashion, I found some whose write-ups were tinged with a separatism I personally don't like (as in, "I made it to the inner circle! Horray for all us post-ops!!")
No, I really don't like the stratification I see some in our community engaging in...
Anyway, I decided not to have a ticker made, not to broadcast my impending SRS.
I told a few people who were close, and snuck off to Thailand in December.
Luckily, I got decent internet access, and was able to keep up a pretense of business-as-usual in the forums as I dashed off e-mail after e-mail to my notification list. I wasn't bragging, I was dealing with the boredom and cabin-fever that was the result of being stuck by my temporary disability in a hotel room in Thailand. My contact circle was my contact with the outside world, and I'm very grateful they put up with my many e-mails.
Upon return, I didn't want to announce my changed status, as I personally felt not much had changed. I did, however, start offering my experience as a post-op trans-woman matter-of-factly, where it might do someone else some good.
Well there it is. My SRS birthday is 8 December 2007, for those who are curious. It's not a big deal to me right now.
Karen
