Re: [GZG] Re: OT Changes and Medical Weirdness

Congratulations, Zoe!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan/Zoe/Carmel Brain" <aebrain@webone.com.au>
To: <gzg-l@lists.csua.berkeley.edu>
Cc: <sfconsim-l@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 6:48 AM
Subject: [GZG] Re: OT Changes and Medical Weirdness

> G'day All
> 
> Um. How the heck do I explain all this? Some of you already know it,
but 
> many don't.
> 
> Towards the end of BSG, it started hitting me where I live.
> 
> Why?
> 
> Because on the 4th of May, something weird and still unexplained
started 
> happening to me.
> 
> The first symptom was a full-blown GD (Gender Dysphoria) crisis. That 
> was odd enough, but it happens to a lot of people. They end up
changing 
> their sex after years of hormone treatment usually capped by surgery.
> 
> Then, at about the same time, maybe a little earlier, maybe a little 
> later, the body started changing shape without treatment. Radically.
And 
> very very quickly. As I said, it's still unexplained, hormones can't 
> work that fast, and I'm not getting any therapy whatsoever anyway.
> 
> Please just go read 2 articles (with pictures) on my blog.
> http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2005/07/facelift.html
> http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2005/07/good-timing.html
> 
> I was planning on making the transition in January 2006, after giving 
> the planned HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) time to work, and some 
> necessary facial surgery in November. But my employer had a chat with
me 
> today, and confirmed that even with my best efforts, I'm not looking 
> particularly male any more, at least, to people who have known me. Not

> that I look particularly female either, just more F than M now. She 
> suggested I transition whenever I felt comfy with it.  All of my 
> colleagues, from the CEO down, have been immensely supportive,  as has

> my partner, Carmel.
> 
> So this is a warning to all my friends, gamers etc that my name will 
> change to Zoe Brain some time in August or September, depending on 
> bureaucracy etc
> 
> "Life : Sometimes Comic, Sometimes Tragic, Never Boring"
> 
> Regards, Alan (currently being field upgraded to Zoe)
> 
> -- 
> Alan & Carmel Brain
> http://aebrain.blogspot.com
> mailto:aebrain@webone.com.au
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