LGBTQ
Trans Ask: What Do You Transition to if You are Non-Binary?
There is no transition — only me
What the Hell Do I Know About Transition?
I don’t know much. How can I? I started questioning my gender for the first time (at least for the first time with language I could assign to the thoughts) when I was 45. It was only a few days before my 46th birthday that I began what many would refer to as a medical transition by starting Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).
I don’t know much
I say, ‘what many would refer to as medical transition,’ because that’s technically the term for it; however, the word doesn’t hit for me. For me, there is no transition. I’m not transitioning to anything other than me. I am simply adjusting my hormonal imbalance to finally come into alignment with what it should be. From that first dose of testosterone, it was like a bright confirmation that indeed, it was a hormonal balance, because, from that first dose, everything changed. Yet nothing changed. I was still me. Just a better version of me. A version that was happier and felt right…
