A couple's experience through gender dysphoria and transitioning.

Our Story

  • Gender Affirming Surgery

    I’m going to skip ahead in time to the now as this is an important part of my life. It’s also what has dominated my thoughts since the date for my surgery was selected.  In a future post I may go into some of the details about how this all came to be. For now,…

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  • Back to Work (Coming out Pt5)

    With the time off coming to an end, the final stage of coming out was next – heading back to work. I’ve already alluded to the fact that my work has been excellent about my transition so it should be no surprise that my first day back was as it should be. I was informed…

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  • Coming out – The Spouse’s Perspective

    Brooke does a great job describing the weeks leading up to her sharing her authentic self with work. There isn’t a lot I can add there aside from how distracting and exhausting those couple weeks were. I was either waiting for her to call to tell me how a particular conversation went or planning how…

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  • Brooklyn’s First Week (Coming Out Pt4)

    The weekend was an emotional one, that’s for sure. It was nearly all positive emotions though even though there was a lot of crying. After coming out at work and socially, I was looking forward to getting to experience what I had been planning. The first real test was going out and walking the dogs…

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  • Coming out to the World (Coming out Pt3)

    With the official announcement at work, most of the people that I see on a day-to-day basis now knew about my transition.  Both Cathy and I agreed that we didn’t want to have to explain our new situation to people as we bump into them and continue to keep coming out. We figured it would…

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