X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2F2017%2Fthe-line-in-the-sand-or-my-slippery-slope-anchoring-action-plan.md;h=e187f61c5d1ffed12b2f1242c7f28528c2202502;hb=be102ce62ab4a9f12ff6f1407b1672009a2d5855;hp=b906ba0ccba169437f770394ba2b62737748894c;hpb=873083ae5b954353c2d1fa56b791a2ffa4b1e1cd;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/2017/the-line-in-the-sand-or-my-slippery-slope-anchoring-action-plan.md b/content/2017/the-line-in-the-sand-or-my-slippery-slope-anchoring-action-plan.md index b906ba0..e187f61 100644 --- a/content/2017/the-line-in-the-sand-or-my-slippery-slope-anchoring-action-plan.md +++ b/content/2017/the-line-in-the-sand-or-my-slippery-slope-anchoring-action-plan.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Tags: not-a-transition So, I'm facing a problem. -On the one hand, I really want to indulge my perverted narcissistic fantasy about being a woman, and I'm _really really jealous_ of all of the trans women friends (I still have friends!—[for now](http://unremediatedgender.space/2017/Jan/the-counter/)) I've made since I moved to "Portland" (quotes because it might not actually be Portland, although you should know that I would still use quotes even if it is Portland, because I'm not some kind of idiot who doesn't know information theory). +On the one hand, I really want to indulge my perverted narcissistic fantasy about being a woman, and I'm _really really jealous_ of all of the trans women friends (I still have friends!—[for now](/2017/Jan/the-counter/)) I've made since I moved to "Portland" (quotes because it might not actually be Portland, although you should know that I would still use quotes even if it is Portland, because I'm [not some kind of idiot who doesn't know information theory](https://www.gwern.net/Death-Note-Anonymity)). On the other hand, I don't want to become a trans woman myself, because I already have a perfectly functional social identity as a man named "'Mark'" (two sets of quotes: one for words-as-words, and another because it might not actually be "Mark", although you should know that _&c._) that I'm not going to throw away for the sake of my perverted narcissistic fantasy, particularly since the standard transition narrative looks so actively delusional to me that I can't possibly participate in it. @@ -35,9 +35,9 @@ I'm aiming for a "weirdly-androgynous man and occasional transvestite" outcome. So here is my schedule of interventions— -* Estradiol: _Yes_ ([already underway](http://unremediatedgender.space/2017/Jan/hormones-day-13/)) +* Estradiol: _Yes_ ([already underway](/2017/Jan/hormones-day-13/)) * Spironolactone: _Maybe_ (conditional on results from just-estrogen) -* Facial hair removal (laser): _Maybe_ (conditional on results from E/Spiro; if beard shadow makes the difference between consistently reading as "weirdly androgynous man" rather than "trans woman", I probably need to keep it) +* Facial hair removal (laser): _Maybe_ (conditional on results from E/spiro; if beard shadow makes the difference between consistently reading as "weirdly androgynous man" rather than "trans woman", I probably need to keep it) * Cosplaying female characters at special events (Comic-Con, Halloween, *&c.*): _Yes_ * Everything else: _No no no no no no no no_