Alternative title: “The Surgery” Although there are many interesting things about being transgender one that always surprises me is people’s infatuation with my genitals. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked “Have you had ‘the surgery’?” or “Do you have a penis?” I will say, I bet if I had a dollar [...]

Well it’s been three full months since I’ve updated this blog. So what have I been up to? Well life I suppose. It seems that life has gotten in the way of me blogging about life. One major thing that has been going on is I have been constantly seeing a therapist since January and [...]

The Process This isn’t the first time I’ve proclaimed that this is a process and it won’t be the last. It may be due to the fact that I compartmentalize my life too much. On the other hand it may be due to the fact that it really, truly, for reals is a process. Tyler [...]

After much research and thought I went thought the process of legally changing my name. The process varies state and county, this is my experience with the process in King County, Washington. Do your homework Everything went very smoothly for me and I think that main reason was I did my homework. I started out [...]

One of the questions I’m often asked is “how did you choose the name Brooke?” To be honest I had no idea how hard it was to choose a name. I now know why it often takes parents a long time to choose a name for their children. It’s funny to think how a name [...]