That's a tough time to know anything about one's identity. I would hope, if it were my kid who I had known all his or her life, I'd be able to gauge how sure they were about their gender identity and weigh that against the medical questions, but who knows how I would actually react and decide.

I am appalled at the school's requiring dresses. That's just ridiculous.

I wonder if it's any easier to go F to M than the other way around. We all start as girls, don't we? And only at a certain point in utero the male chromosome kicks in?

I wonder if it's any easier to go F to M than the other way around.

Surgically it's hard to add peen. I think it's easier to construct a vagina that passes muster.

Surgically it's hard to add peen.

Damn it, I meant that the other way around.

I think it's easier to construct a vagina that passes muster.

Muster for a partner, at least. I'd imagine.

The crude joke is that "it's easier to dig a hole than build a pole."

Muster for a partner, at least. I'd imagine.

Well, I don't know how much you can fix on the erogenous zone front, but you can't have a transparently mechanically functioning male member, so there's going to be personal disconnect there too.

My gender politics are way too messed up. I think if I were going to be a man, I couldn't imagine achieving it without translating the current functionality of my genitalia to XY. But I don't know that much about that area of transsexuality. I asked a lot of questions of my FTM cousin, but how she gets off now, and how she planned to? Nah.

Well, I don't know how much you can fix on the erogenous zone front, but you can't have a transparently mechanically functioning male member, so there's going to be personal disconnect there too.

Oh yeah, what I mean is "easier to dig a hole, etc." I don't know how good a constructed vaginal would feel for the person whose body it is, but I bet it could be fine for someone else. At least more so than the peen.

Edit: And by "fine" of course I just mean more like genitals that come with a body, not that a transgender man or woman couldn't have an awesome sex life with partner of whatever gender....

quinoa salad - yumm. I've been wanting to make this for a week finally just forced myself to do it.

Amy, mac is watching the video and there is much loling.

The strange thing is, S. and I just watched something on Discovery Health last week about sex reassignment, and it was fascinating. But no one interviewed attempted any medical intervention until adulthood.

Amy, mac is watching the video and there is much loling.

You can't go wrong with Bugs!

Meanwhile, Sara just came into my room wrapped in a towel to ask me a question and said, "I hate to interrupt you when I'm naked." Okay then.