About The "Real Life Experience" and Detransitioning
by: Autumn Sandeen
Fri Oct 24, 2008 at 17:00:00 PM EDT

http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=7755

[Note: LenaD has a related diary entitled The road not taken on the same subject as this diary, but with a somewhat different take. ~~Autumn~~]

Some days I hate my job at Pam's House Blend, and this is definitely one of those days. I really need to explain what the Real Life Experience [(RLE) -- also referred to as the Real Life Test (RLT)] is and why some transsexuals detransition...And, this is because the person I met as Christine Daniels is apparently detransitioning (also called retransitioning) to Mike Penner.

Basically, I need to separate the personal from the professional when discussing how detransitioning fits into transsexual experience -- a sometime component of transitioning sexes -- and yet on the very personal level I wish it weren't at the impetus of someone I've known and care deeply about that's leading me to discuss the subject.

But life is what it is.

by: Autumn Sandeen
Thu Feb 26, 2009 at 00:15:00 AM EST

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=9651

Note: I originally posted this piece last October on the news that Christine Daniels detransitioned back to Mike Penner.

A week ago last Tuesday (February 17th, 2009), Jossip apparently just caught wind of this story, and then mainstream publication USA Today did their own story on Penner's detransition story. Now, Querty, OutSports, Joe.My.God, and Towleroad (among others) posted their own pieces which highlighted the Mike Penner-to-Christine Daniels-to-Mike Penner story.