Trying to look back through the gender fog (part 2)

I left off in the first part (Trying to look back through the gender fog (part 1)) at the completion of high school. This second part continues with my life experiences after high school up until my day of reckoning as a woman. So my life moved on after I graduate high school. Eventually, I would […]

Trying to look back through the gender fog (part 1)

I guess I have to explain what I mean by my title. I will try to explore and discover any clues or hints from my past that might indicate that I had a foggy gender sense earlier in my life; way earlier then when I first identified fully as a woman. Memories are difficult to […]

Hi Mom, It’s Your Daughter Stephie

I was sitting in a Zoom group for the mental health program I attend, and someone brought up the notion of writing a letter to someone expressing your thoughts and feelings about that person, and then not even sending it, or maybe even destroying it. This gave me the idea for this post—write a letter […]

Celebrating Two Years of Transitioning

On Saturday (July 10, 2021) I celebrated two years of transitioning. Yay! Like my one year transitioning transversary I did it at Bonefish Grill. For awhile I was thinking about not celebrating it. Like the waiter at the one year one celebration said “you never get a second first year.” But, then I said, ‘hey, […]

It’s a Name Thing – 3

Okay, I have written two previous posts on this topic, sharing both the good and the bad (one might think my name is important to me, well like many other, probably most, transgender individuals it is). Since then, my name has been legally change to Stephie Iris. It has also been changed with Social Security, […]

My Transversary Celebration of One Year on HRT

I will start and say this was the third transversary I have celebrated. All of them at Bone Fish Grill. The first two were My One Year Mark of Transitioning Celebration and Stephie’s Two Year Birthday Celebration. One year of transitioning was the first. My two years as Stephie was the second, and perhaps the most important […]

One Year on HRT

April 8, 2021 marked my one year transversary of cross hormone treatment (commonly know as hrt†). I thought that in this post that I might share some of the results I have had so far. I hope this will be helpful to anyone considering hrt themselves and will be informative to the general public. There […]

What’s It Like?

Okay, what is what like? What is it like being a transgender woman? I am not talking about what’s it like to live as a woman who’s sex assigned at birth doesn’t match her gender identity, but that internal sense or feeling of my being a woman. It is possible that it is no different […]

My Progress Continues

Back in January of 2020 I wrote My Amazing Progress as I was just finishing my social transition and made arrangements to embark on hrt and voice feminization training. I will say straight off say that I am even more pleased with my progress than I was back then. Of course, the road has been […]

I am not a Guy

Everyone got that. This is my response to being included in the phrase “you guys” or it’s use at all in mixed company. “Oh, don’t be so sensitive Stephie, it’s not meant to misgender anyone, it is just a common phrase you use to address a group.” Well, I will, hopefully, explain way I am […]