You'll have to forgive the 'tone flat' tenor of this posting and intro, given what I have...recently passed through.
But I will be OK.
I am a 50 year old intensely transsexual woman (my sisters who know me describe me to the effect that I am the definitive "Type 6" woman. The sordid and gory history solidly attests to this), 185 lbs, athletic build, very lithe, very strong for a girl, 165 IQ, very psychologically intense, serious natured, presently work as a federally certificated aircraft technician (current assignment, as an aircraft electrician), 23 years Air Force, etc.
I am a 'late transitioner", a function of not having a bloody clue as to who or what I was until one day in May of 2005, when everything finally became manifest and known.
And I have been both in transition and on an aggressive HRT regimen since roughly that point in time; much has changed, much has been survived.
A good friend of mine in AU described me as follows,
"You have a ferociously keen intellect, but nobody who has suffered as long as you have, at the level of GID that you have, could have possibly avoided acquiring secondary cognitive and emotional problems throughout her life."
She's absolutely correct on this and the resolution of these multiplied secondary cognitive problems, while they are indeed healing on a parallel track with my GID resolution, are what has made MY OWN transition nothing less than a living hell.
It seems apparent that in my case with the initiation of the healing process of my GID, these multiple secondary cognitive and emotional issues ALSO began to heal and precisely because all of this healing and accelerated maturational 'catch-up' is happening concurrently, my transition has proven to be very traumatic in itself.
Odd, I never expected to pass through all of this when I first began my journey towards the true. But it cannot be attributed to rank naivete.
How could I have possibly have known what I would have to pass through?
And satiate my curiosity, someone: Am I the only girl who has had to pass through a 'transitional and cognitive battlefield" like this?
I don't know. Ostensibly, this appears so.
I have had multiple surgeries since the onset in 2005: bilateral orchiectomy, radical penectomy, tracheal shave, minor facial plastic surgery.
Do not mistake the tone of what I have said here as being representative of who I really am; that's actually not the case and in reality, I seem to be loved and fairly popular.
I currently reside in Michigan, but this will change in the future.
