Not many people get a second shot at virginity. It’s a particular blessing of the post-op transgender experience that I didn’t expect would weigh so heavily upon me.

In my last BrokeAssStuart blog I wrote about the lack of mediatized representations of transgender people as complex, loving, sexual, and emotional beings. I also wrote that all the guys I had met online were interested in sex but not interested in taking me on an actual date. In what follows, I’m happy to prove myself wrong on both counts.

It’s been a while since I’ve shared anything about my process. A couple months ago I hit a wall...

I am a little boat
floating farther and farther away
from shore...

Someday in the not-too-distant future I’m going to write an update about how fun it is to live pain-free and how enjoyable my new vagina has become. This is not that day...

I remember sitting on the couch in the Suporn clinic two weeks after my surgery. There were four of us taking the post-op care class...