December 2022: Monthly Social
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transandnonbinary
12/02/2022 - 12/04/2022
Good day! One of the things I wanted to start around here is a monthly get-together to get to know each other and chat about what we please. I'm going to try to make this every first Friday of each month. In the future I might devise more specific themes, but for this round I'd love to do an almost friending-meme sort of post. For everyone who doesn't want to post a separate post for an introduction, please come here!
Otherwise, free for all! Got trans artists & art to recommend? Want to share your own? Want to talk transition? Got fun anecdotes to share? Go on to your heart's content!
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Date: 2022-12-04 03:39 am (UTC)My transition started a lot later than many other folks'--I didn't even know I was trans until I was in my late 30s, and then life circumstances preventing me from starting any kind of transition (apart from being out online, which I have been for over a decade) until the fall of 2019. And then came COVID, which really threw a wrench into everything, including my plans to meet more trans and NB folks locally.
In the new year I'm going to finally get going on the paperwork aspects of my transition (changing name, gender markers, etc.) I'm lucky enough to live in a US state where that's not too difficult, but I'm still dreading outing myself to a zillion strangers.
My other hope for this year is for top surgery. If anybody has recommendations, un-recommendations, or other advice about top surgery, surgeons, etc. I'd be grateful. Especially if you know of a GOOD surgeon who is not fatphobic and doesn't impose BMI requirements.
I'm into queer genre fiction (especially featuring gay/bi/trans men) and I've been pretty thoroughly obsessed with Our Flag Means Death since this spring. I also have a terrible weakness for all kinds of older books, TV, and films that are full of delicious queer coding, from Shakespeare to (certain runs of) Doctor Who.
I'm currently making my fourth attempt to read all of Moby Dick.