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gender dysphoria is “at what age did you start your period?” “and were you ever on birthday control” yes. “and about what age and how long | euphoria kicks in when a hospital’s care reminds you of that of which you received in childhood the 90’s gets *com· part· men· tal· ize(d) to the past a mammogram gets you closer to *that this integrated present hot in a hospital gown patterns soft the blue is cool ? fascinated in a hospital room “can I take a picture” “I am an artist. I’ve been making work Inspired by my transition” 
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Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green he writes: "For me, the process of coming out as trans was less like opening a closest door and more like slowly lighting a series of candles in a dark cave." When I read his story, I was just starting to consider HRT. I showed my two best friends every page that I had eagerly marked with an array of sticky notes: re-imaging how I fit into the world's future | centered connected and comfortable  Jamison Green also appears in the 1997 documentary, You Don't Know Dick
SEX, POLITICS, AND THE ETHICS OF QUEER LIFE | MICHAEL WARNER. . . they will find it hard to distinguish their shame from its politics, their personal failings from the power of alien norms. p. 3 For most people, at least, the ethical response to sexual shame seems to be: more shame. p. 3 What looks like crime might be harmless difference. What looks like immorality might be a rival morality. What looks like pathology might be a rival form of health, tolerance of stress. p. 5 So sexual autonomy requires more than freedom of choice, tolerance, and the liberalization of sex laws. It requires access to pleasures and possibilities, since people commonly do not know their desires until they find them. p. 7 Women and gay people have been especially vulnerable to the shaming effects of isolation. Almost all children grow up in families that think of themselves and all their members as heterosexual, and for some children this produces a profound and nameless estrangement, a sense of inner secrets and hidden shame.
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