Me/SRS

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I had SRS done on July 19, 2017 by Dr. Keelee MacPhee, with the operation conducted at NC Specialty Hospital (less than half an hour from where I live). It was an unexpected piece of luck to find the surgeries being done so close to home; I would probably have had to wait at least another year (and possibly indefinitely) if I had needed to travel any significant distance.

A fact which is apparently little-known is that SRS is one of the first things I wanted to do, when I originally discovered in 2000 that transitioning was a thing that one could do. If I could have pushed buttons to accomplish the various stages of transition instantaneously in any order I liked (but perhaps with some delay so I'd have to live with the intermediate states for awhile), it would have gone like this:

  1. facial depilation (electrolysis)
  2. SRS (high priority; close race with #1)
  3. FFS (if it was that easy...)
  4. vocal surgery (same...)
  5. HRT (mostly unnecessary after SRS anyway)

What with various life circumstances, it took 16 years before I could start seriously transitioning (a delay which often pushed me to the edge of despair and sometimes a little beyond), and it took a year after that to arrange for SRS (which is actually less time than I had expected it to take – and it could have been even sooner if not for various household obligations). Facial depilation will probably take at least well into 2018, too, so I'm not done yet, but the hard part is done and everything crucial is now either complete or underway.

All in all, it took me 17 years to get to the two key items on my wish-list – and I was pretty much quietly miserable the whole time, despite appearances. I ended up with a feeling of my life having been on hold for the better part of two decades at least (and in some ways longer), with this very strange sense of time-displacement.

There are a few SRS-related pictures (safe for general consumption) on the HypertWiki.