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.

Now my 4pm meeting can start! Great!

From what I've read about it (I'm sure other people know more), the medication that they give to preteen and teenage kids doesn't make them develop as the sex they identify as, it just prevents puberty of any sort.

That's my understanding as well - you don't give kids hormones so much as you can give them hormone suppression. And I'm pretty sure anyone under transitioning under 18 needs to be formally diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder. It's not something parents can just sign their kids up for like pottery class.

The BBC has a great documentary about a trans FTM tween. I've watched it a zillion times for clients, and so naturally I can't remember the title to save my life. It's a Horizon, and it's not Dr Money And The Boy With No Penis (which is about a boy who was raised as a girl after a botched circumcision - also a great doc, but not so much about trans issues as fucked up doctors).

Hey, Jess, I came across a small stash of baby stuff of Sara's, including a little coat that she wore maybe three times. Expect a package ... sometime after we get mostly settled.

This may be outdated trans tech, but I saw in an Annie Sprinkle doc (Herstory of Porn, IIRC) that it is possible to build a skin pouch into which one can insert a rod when one wants to have intercourse. Now, how well that simulates peen for that person or their partner, I cannae say.

I put up some pics of the hutch I bought: [link]

Pretty! Pretty toenails, too. And is that Depression glass?

You know what's excellent for packing? All those plastic bags we somehow wound up saving.