Welcome to my transition
website. My name is Sherry, and I am a
transitioned woman. This means that I
used to be transsexual, meaning that my physical sex differed from my internal
gender. I sought treatment for this
condition by transforming my body to conform to my female gender. Once a surgeon in Thailand performed SRS, my
body and gender match and I ceased to be transsexual.
I have felt and believed that I
should have been a girl for as long as I can remember. I recall my mom insisting that “you are a
boy” when I was four or five, and that I felt uncomfortable with this.
After denying my true self for a
time in early adulthood, many things that I had repressed suddenly resurfaced
in November 1998. At that time I was a
factory worker in an Arkansas chicken plant, and now I had to face the task of
financing transition while working in a blue-collar environment.
Understandably, my process took
time. Despite being fortunate in some
ways (did not need expensive FFS, had no spouse or children to support), it
would take me more than seven years to finally complete my physical and legal
transformation. Sometimes my progress
seemed nonexistent as I saved funds for my next step of the process. I made my social transition and transitioned
full time on December 30th, 2002.
I completed my physical transition when I had SRS in Bangkok on October
3rd, 2005 and finally corrected a stubborn gender marker with the
Social Security Administration in April 2006.
My life since then has been similar
to that of any other American woman. No,
my life has not been perfect and never will be.
I’ve experienced my share of joy and tribulations. I returned to school and took classes at a
local community college. Since then I
have completed my Associates Degree in computer science. Now that I no longer needed to save money for
transition, I took several vacations, including a Caravan tour of the Canadian
Rockies. Not everything goes my way. On
July 2nd, 2008, I became a statistic of the Great Recession when I
received notice that my workplace was shutting down the plant and today was my
last day of work.
Life will never be perfect, but from
now on I will always experience life as the real me.
Update: September 5th, 2009
Geocities will close
on October 26th, and my former website will vanish. As a result, I have relocated my site to
Tripod.
I do realize that the monthly
bandwidth is lower than what Geocities offered.
My website generally receives light traffic, and traffic rarely exceeded
my allotted hourly bandwidth on Geocities.
I believe that file transfer will remain below Tripod allotment for the
vast majority of the time. If it does
not, please bear with me, as I will seriously consider upgrading to a paid plan
so that valuable information remains available for those who need it.
I will continue to be very
busy. So I will not be able to answer
all of my E-mail, while responses to E-mails I do answer could be delayed for
days or weeks. Please read my contact page for
more information.
Click here for Previous
updates to my website
I describe the reasons I had this
surgery, the procedure, and most importantly, the aftereffects of
orchiectomy. I have also written a
couple of pages to address the many questions that others considering this
procedure have asked me.
I write about the Apollo hair
replacement system and address many of the questions others have asked me about
hair replacement for those transitioners who have
suffered serious hair loss.
The process for my legal name change
in the state of Arkansas
Reflections on My Real Life
Experience
I wrote about some thoughts and
reflections about the first two years of my RLE.
As a result of inconsiderate
policies, the SSA may out you at work if you are pre-op or non-op TS, or even
if you are post-op and haven’t yet bothered to change the gender marker on your
Social Security record.
I finally had my SRS in October
2005, and life has been a lot more comfortable ever since. My own SRS experience, from many months of
preparation and anticipation, to my feelings ever since my surgery:
Passports for
Transsexuals Traveling to Thailand for SRS
If you are a US citizen and need to
travel abroad for your SRS, you can obtain a temporary passport which is valid
for one year and lists your sex as female.
After SRS, you can easily have this passport extended to ten years.
Information and resources to assist
you in your transition
To contact me by E-Mail, please go
to Sherry's Contact
Page