A reader writes: “I’m a trans man who has been on T coming up on two years. I don’t have a sex drive. I got a slight taste of it for two weeks in the beginning, then it went away for a few months, then returned for two weeks again – but then went away [...]
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Ask Matt: Low Sex Drive is Driving Me Up the Wall
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Observations, tagged gender expectations, health, hormones, masculinity, sex, testosterone, trans men on May 17, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Ask Matt: Transition and a Second Adolescence
Posted in Ask Matt, Observations, tagged gender expectations, hormones, identity, testosterone, transition on May 14, 2012 | 15 Comments »
A reader writes: “I wonder how people feel about going through their second adolescence at a later stage in life than folks do naturally? I remember hearing a guy at an FTM meeting saying he did not wish to go through it in his thirties. I went through it (am still going through it?) in [...]
Ask Matt: Testosterone and the Non-Trans Man
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Information, tagged bodies, health, hormones, masculinity on May 14, 2012 | 7 Comments »
A reader writes: “My son is eighteen turning nineteen, and he just started using testosterone. He wants to look like his dad. I don’t approve of it because I’m scared that it may harm him, but his dad said he will be fine. Should I be concerned or am I just being a worried mom?” [...]
Ask Matt: Losing and Finding Your Place in Trans Activism
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Observations, tagged activism, being out, being trans, community, gender identity, transition on May 10, 2012 | 15 Comments »
A reader writes: “A few weeks ago I was at a trans advocacy meeting, and the guy who was currently moderating mentioned that he’d not really had trans identity on his radar until three years ago. That short amount of time struck me for some reason. “I’ve been out for eight years, and aware that [...]
Ask Matt: Will Surgery Help With Dysphoria?
Posted in Ask Matt, Information, Observations, tagged bodies, gender identity, masculinity, surgery, transition on May 7, 2012 | 44 Comments »
A reader writes: “I have three questions: How much did chest surgery help with dysphoria (if you had any)? How did you pay for it? Who was your surgeon?” This is short and sweet, but it lends itself to a lot of reader input. I think it would be valuable for readers to find out [...]
Ask Matt: Writing a Trans Character in Fiction
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Information, Observations, tagged being out, being trans, books, trans women, transition, transsexual on May 3, 2012 | 32 Comments »
A reader writes: “I’m an author who wishes to include a trans person in her fictional writings. I fear I know little to nothing about trans people as a whole, however. “And while I believe trans people should be treated as people, I also don’t want to write a woman as cis and then claim [...]
Ask Matt: Will I Always Look Like a Trans Guy?
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Information, Observations, tagged bodies, gender expression, hormones, masculinity, testosterone, trans men, transition on April 30, 2012 | 16 Comments »
A reader writes: “I’m twenty-seven, but only a couple of years ago realized that I have to do something about my gender dysphoria, otherwise I’ll get too depressed and only feel more and more like I’m a guest in this body of mine. The problem is that I’m a perfectionist – too much a perfectionist. [...]
Ask Matt: The Pros and Cons of a Hysterectomy
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Information, Observations, tagged bodies, health, hormones, surgery, trans men, transition on April 23, 2012 | 21 Comments »
A reader writes: “What do you think the pros and cons are on removal of ovaries and uterus? I had issues with cysts on my ovaries prior to T two years ago. Last Friday, it felt like I had a cyst rupture. So off to the doc for a PAP and an ultrasound to have [...]
Ask Matt: Should Gender Dysphoria Be in the DSM?
Posted in Ask Matt, Commentary, Information, Observations, tagged being trans, health, language, therapy, transition on April 16, 2012 | 34 Comments »
A reader writes: “The DSM-V is coming out at the end of the year, and the big question of whether or not gender identity disorder will appear is being decided now, I believe. I heard something about that they gave the revision of this part to the wrong people, and that something terrible could come [...]
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Ask Matt: Trans Privacy vs. Airport Security
Posted in Ask Matt, Commentary, Information, Observations, tagged being trans, bodies, discrimination, gender expectations, gender expression, legal on April 19, 2012 | 18 Comments »
A reader writes: “I am curious to know of any experiences, negative or otherwise, you or your readers may have had with airport security in these times of full-body scans and/or pat-downs. “Those of us who are transgender may, thanks to hormones, convincingly appear to be the desired gender, but the full body scan or [...]
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