Just Asking Questions

A “late transition” is often an early transition that didn’t happen. I should know.

These were the phones we used in 2003. We had to hunt buffalo on the plains and we all died of dysentery on the way to Oregon. It was rough. Photo by Quino Al on Unsplash

I spend a lot of time thinking about my first transition. It lasted a week, back in 2003 or 2004. I have mentioned this period in my life several times — I say that I was in college, and that I knew a few trans men, and I was aware that there were overlaps in our experience, so I told my…