#middle surgery

Recommended Reading: I Was Sterilized and Had My Breasts Removed, and I Couldn’t Be Happier – xoJane

I found this recommend reading interesting as an example of the gender dysphoria some non-binary gender identified people go through. I don’t know of an analogous decision by a non-binary gender identified person who was designated male at birth. As much as we have in common, it’s clear that non-binary people who were designated female at birth and those designated male at birth are different in…

I’m six weeks post op for my hysterectomy.  I feel completely healed most of the time with the exception of an occasional twinge of discomfort if I wear my belt too tight around my waist but I’m not officially cleared to resume normal lifting for another two weeks.  This surgery was a pretty major hurdle for me to cross on my way to authentically living as myself but it is also somewhat…

Somebody used the term “middle surgery” for the hysterectomy and I liked it so much more than simply “hysterectomy” for our purposes as trans* people.  The word hysterectomy was coined in the late 1800’s to denote the removal of the hysteria of women caused by the malfunctioning uterus.  Nothing about that word is positive to me.  I am not and was not hysterical and there’s nothing funny about it…