This Thursday I will have a class with the author of “The Testosterone Files” (read a review here).  I’m trying to think of how I can frame a question about the attitudes stereotypically associated with masculinity/femininity and heterosexual relationships  and how transitioning (particularly with the assistance of hormone therapy) can be managed emotionally and socially.

That was a really long sentence but the gist is — does transitioning one’s body from “male” to “female” with hormones influence the way one interprets and understands one’s own masculinity and/or femininity? I’m less interested in the changes in desire or the sexual relationships one might have and more in the internal identity management side.  How does one manage the external manifestations of sex, the internal feelings of desire, the internal shifts in attraction and understandings of the self as one intentionally alters hormone balances?

I read a little about this in a blog but I’m not sure that writing even exists that lets trans folk share their own experiences of this…If you know of some, let me know?