Friday, August 29, 2014

Facebook Coming-out Post (Revised Edition)

I have been formally diagnosed with gender dysphoria. This means I will next see endocrinology to start Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) in the next few weeks. Which, in turn, means I will start to slowly appear more physically feminine, and less physically masculine, while, for a time, retaining an unsettling mixture of both.

I have a court date to legally change my name next week, and a form signed by my doctor to legally change my gender. If any of you are uncomfortable with any of that, then I'm terribly sorry. You may unfriend me if you feel so compelled, of course. But I would suggest that if you feel so uncomfortable that your first reaction is to unfriend me, that you instead challenge yourself to stick around.

Some quick pre-emptive Q&A:

IS THIS JOKE???/?? SOME KIND???
No.

HOW DO YOU FEMALE??
I was born the way I am. As I suspect most of you were.

DO YOU HATE CATS NOW???
Don't be stupid.

YOU CAN'T JUST PENIS AND THEN NOT PENIS!!!
That's... literally not even a question.

HOW IS BABBY FORMED?
Google it.

WHICH BATHROOM???? MAEK POTTY?/1/??
At the Art Institute, students are allowed to use the restroom with which they identify, once they've
cleared it with the Dean of Student Affairs.

NEW NAME WHAT??
You will see that when the court order has been issued and I change my Facebook to reflect it.

I AM GIRL ALSO, HAVE EXTRA CLOTHES AND STUFF, YOU WANT??
Yes, definitely.



YOU STILL PLAY VID GAEMS??? WITH AN BOOB??/?
Yes. No.

NOW YOUR FACEBKOO ALL SELFIE AND SHOE HAHA??
Yes, I will continue to post things that I like and that interest me on my Facebook. The only difference is that what those things are has shifted in some ways.

HOW PAY HORMONE???/? MOENY??
I paid for them in advance by being in the Army. (They are covered by the VA.)

WHEN DID YOU DECIDE TO BE GIRL??
I didn't pick the girl life. The girl life picked me. (It was not a choice. It was a realization.)

I'm sure there will be more questions, but if your question is any of these questions, then please accept these answers, as they are all true and correct to the best of my knowledge.