‘What she said…’

My joke: I’m pretty binary, even for a binary…

What this meant is that I had just lethal levels of dysphoria, pre-op. I held it together through the required one year ‘real life test’ only because I was so busy working everything I could to transition.

Had I been prevented, or even delayed, from surgery I doubt I would have survived. And I’m not being figurative: I had already attempted to end my life many, many times.

In my case, surgery was utterly medically necessary, and not a moment too soon.