At the beginning of 2020, I sought out a psychotherapist for the first time. I first went to him with a self-diagnosis of depression. That was correct in and of itself. But he didn’t know the cause at that point.
In the second session I opened up to him, I…
Actually, I wanted to reply personally to everyone’s comment, but somehow I felt obliged to do even more than that.
I knew when writing, probably even before writing, that some would like my post and some not so much.
I was not deliberately provocative. I just said what I think.
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For days I’ve just been hanging around. I have no desire and no strength to do anything anymore. I neglect the house, open issues, my work, the children and my wife. It just doesn’t work any more, I’m through.
Yesterday, when I somehow reacted the wrong way again, she took…
Eddie Redmayne says he regrets playing trans woman Lili Elbe in the movie ‘The Danish Girl’:
No I wouldn’t make that film now. I made that film with the best intentions, but I think it was a mistake.
Why do you say that, Eddie? I loved you in that role…
A few days ago my wife came home with my youngest daughter. They brought me socks and underwear. Yes, underwear for a man. Boxer shorts for a man. What else?
My wife told me my daughter said of the underwear packaging: “That man looks like daddy.”
Many men would have…
On November 8, 2021, I had the idea to link the publication of my Medium posts to my Twitter profile via the IFTTT service. I have a Twitter profile for myself as Elena. The link worked exactly like that. This was confirmed to me in a message.
I am currently reading the book Still Me. It’s part 3 of the so-called Lou series, which got its beautifully sad beginning with Me Before You. I love this book series, I love Lou, and I love a lot of what Jojo Moyes writes.
I was motivated to write this…
When I first had contact with the German transgender-support network dgti in early 2020, this wonderful person on the other end of the phone recommended that I write a trans diary.
This is exactly what I had not done until then. …
I write these lines in tears. I just have to get it off my chest and I have no one else but this text editor to lament to.
I am sitting in my new house, in my own office. I am sitting there alone, no one is at home. My…
Speaking from experience here, I can’t confirm that outed trans women do this either, but I can’t imagine it ever stopping.
As we all know, there is everything on the internet. And by that I really mean everything. But we don’t need to go from one extreme to the other…
