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When I began this journal of sorts I was 25. I am now a 27 year old trans identified male human being. This means that I was born in a female body, but identify in my life as a male person. On September 11, 2008 I had reconstructive chest surgery, which has sparked me to compile this website. When I began researching transgender identity 5 years ago, there were several personal websites that I found beautifully helpful in my own personal journey, and I would hope someone would also stumble upon this one while trying to figure out their own shit. I hope that someone can learn from my experiences, or just see something else that is real, or like them. The information contained in the following pages, is of "adult nature," i.e. – kinda gruesome, so fyi – you will see photographs containing nudity and surgery.

I began taking a low dose of testosterone in February 2010, and spent 6 months gradually increasing to a full dose as of August 2010. You'll get occasional insight on how I feel about that through journal entries, but this website project was formed more to process my surgery experience, (and I wasn't on hormones at the time of the surgery) so that's the dominant.

While this is in fact a website designed solely to express and share insight and information regarding trans related issues, my trans experience is only a very small part of what makes me (or anyone else for that matter) tick.

I am an artist I guess. I like to make films, write music and think about stuff. I write and perform with the bands Actor Slash Model and The Homoticons, recently finished directing a feature length documentary film, and am in graduate school. I have a beautiful support system in my life including chosen and biological family, that has come with as much/little hardship as everything else. Everyday I'm learning a little more about how to make egg salad from my eggs, or something like that...

That's me in a nutshell, now onto my trans experience.