On Coming: From Anonymous Sex Into the Right Body

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zoe-dolan/on-coming-from-anonymous-_b_7995128.html?utm_hp_ref=transgender

The Huffington Post/by Zoe Dolan    08/17/2015

"Eventually I landed in the hospital with a "fever of unknown origin" (FUO, the doctors called it), which lingered over 105 degrees for a week and kept me shivering under an electric cold blanket, hallucinating all the while. The following week I was right back at it, having anonymous sex as soon as I was discharged -- until, sure enough, I returned to the hospital with another FUO. This time I was worried, and alone: my boss from the theater where I had started working straight out of college didn't come to visit, as she had the first time. I was trying people's patience; things could only get worse."