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Coming Out
The Conundrum Even after proclaiming my preferred pronouns, few people had come on board. Or rather, I’d made little effort to change the status quo. People had no way of knowing that my pronouns...
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Today’s Truth
When I told my dad I wanted surgery, it went something like this. We were at the Zócalo – Mexico City’s downtown district – shopping for my very first suit. He started talking about how the staff...
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Everybody’s Asexual
A few weeks ago I was featured on a panel for Huffington Post Live, talking about Asexuality. In it I told a story which had actually been brewing in the back of my mind for a while, and which I’d been...
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My Hysto
Given that in the last post I quickly glossed over the fact that I have a major surgery scheduled in less than a week, I wanted to address a few details surrounding my decision and the whole process of...
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5 Things I Wish I Knew Last Year
Hormones are gradual. That I would actually take hormones was a surprise in itself, since for the longest time I was absolutely convinced that I would never ever do that. But also, internalizing the...
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Hysterectomy: One Week Post-Op
Cramps In Spanish – at least the Mexican Spanish that I speak – there are three words to describe three distinct types of cramps. “Dolor de caballo” – or literally, horse’s pain – is the kind of sharp...
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2 years
Today I got an automated email. It’s been 2 years from today since I started blogging at http://neutrois.me. I never imagined everything that would come of it: intimate exploration of my identity,...
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Significant Love
This letter was written by my significant other as a contribution to a book. It seems fitting to publish this Feb 14th. Enjoy. Yesterday as I was waking up it hit me: your hysterectomy is in less than...
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Top Surgery: 2 Years Post-op
It’s been a year since I put up pictures of my chest for the world to see. And it’s hard to believe that it’s been only 2 years since there was anything else there. Hypertrophic Scar Treatment I get a...
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Parallel Worlds
Author’s Note: I wrote this piece for an upcoming anthology called Trans Bodies Trans Selves. The topic was being a trans immigrant, which I integrated with having non-binary gender. Enjoy! When my...
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Complete
I once asked myself, "when will my transition be complete?" After which I questioned the underlying assumption, wondering "how can my transition ever be complete?" As a non-binary person this seemed...
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Post Transition
As I envision the person I'll become in 5, 10, 25, or even 45 years, I'm certain everything about me will change, including my gender - how I feel about it, how I look, how others see me. Being trans...
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Disclosure is a Spectrum
It's not about "passing" (whatever that means), it's not about a "successful" transition (whatever that looks like) or a "complete" transition (life is never complete). It's simply a spectrum of who...
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T Update: Low Dose Testosterone, and Starting and Stopping
Through my personal experience, I address common questions about Testosterone, primarily the effects of being on a low dose, and the effects of starting and stopping.
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Past Life
Thus I awoke just before 4am, heart racing, as present-me was navigating my life 10 years ago.
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Top Surgery: 3 years
Another year, another milestone. For archival, informational, nostalgic purposes, go back to my 2 Year mark, and my progress after the 1st Year. If you’re new here, check out the top […]
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Low Dose Testosterone Update 2015
I made a video, finally! A little bit later than usual, as I had been uploading these once a year on January, the month in which I started testosterone. It’s very short (like me!), only 4 minutes, so...
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Top Surgery: 4 years
Every year I express my gratitude at being able to have this opportunity. While top surgery isn’t the only thing that changed my life for the better, it was certainly a defining moment, the catalyst...
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Grief
Note: I felt and wrote these words over a year ago. I had just come back from a trip to see my parents, as I was changing my legal gender in Mexico City. That process forced issues to surface, like the...
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Testosterone, Are You There? It’s Me, Micah.
I’ve been injecting testosterone into alternating thighs every two weeks for the past 3 years or so. Sometimes I wonder if it’s doing what it’s supposed to be doing because my dose is too low....
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