TransPanTastic: Transgender parenting, work, marriage, transition, and life!

One recurring theme in the ten year's we've been in your ears has been the recurring difficulties accessing testosterone. These difficulties are familiar to most trans folks on any form of HRT, and now George has been struggling to also access mental health treatment meds after an insurance snafu. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we...

When George got to Child#2's IEP meeting, in addition to doing the parenty thing, he also got to be "the dude who shut down the other dude". We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us know by clicking to a one-question anonymous survey at vote.pollcode.com/32371374 . If you have a...

Bob the dog is the only pet we intend to ever own again, but Child #3 wanted help keeping her cat when her other dad wasn't able to keep it anymore. We were willing to help, but only so far. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us know by clicking to a one-question anonymous su...

After bringing Child#2 home from Alaska, getting him back into the routines of daily life, school, and preparations for adulting, have been a challenge. But we went to pride and George found some resources that might help with the adulting part. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can...

After many months of shortage, George's testosterone prescription has finally begun refilling again. After many months of waiting for his endocrinologist to finish his move to a new practice, he has finally made contact and had an appointment. After many hours on the phone with doctor's offices, with insurance reps, with pension program insurance liaisons, and with patient advocates, can he actual...

We went back to Alaska to pick up Child#2, and took our own little vacation along the way, stopping in Seattle first. But of course, nothing ever goes to plan around here, so in addition to George having a date and Jess getting to see a friend, we also had to do long-distance parenting and kid-transit troubleshooting. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds...

Once George and Vinnie got Child#2 to his adult brother's village in Alaska, you would think the challenges would settle down some. You'd be wrong, but they did find queers, so that was better, maybe? We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us know by clicking to a one-question an...

Child#2's brother has been half-asking, half-planning, half-assing an attempt at a visit for a long while, so finally George and Cousin Vinnie decided to just make it happen. The efforts to plan and to communicate with said brother and family were mildly challenging and mildly amusing. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to kno...

George has recruited Cousin Vinnie to help take Child#2 to visit the boy's adult half-brother, while Jess is having lots of social time both with and without George, and we all are having our challenges interacting with the allocishets. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us k...

George recounts the experience of traveling to, and recovering from, his fourth surgery. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us know by clicking to a one-question anonymous survey at vote.pollcode.com/32371374 . If you have a request/suggestion that isn't listed, comment! We c...

We get into the actual medical preparations for George's upcoming surgery, and then run away from home for a weekend to try to enjoy ourselves with fewer responsibilities for a couple days. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us know by clicking to a one-question anonymous sur...

While G is preparing to leave for surgery, once again, we are making sure to prepare, as much as possible, everything for which he is responsible. This means managing a kid, an aunt, and various doctor appointments for the both of us. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us kno...

George wanted to take Child#2 on a spring break road trip, and Cousin Vinnie needed to get out of town to escape work for a while, so they took George's car and visited some fish, George's metamour, and Death Valley. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us know by clicking to a...

George's endocrinologist is changing offices, Child#2 needs various healthcare documentation to prepare for disabled adulthood, and Jess is trying to access endocrinology services at the gender clinic, all while we attempt to get ready for George's next stage of surgery. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you conn...

It's been a while since we discussed our respective upbringings and the experiences in our earlier lives that led to who we are now, so today we started reviewing George's personal history of queerness and transness. This episode contains content from just before high school thru his decision to transition a decade ago, just before we started this podcast. Earlier experiences can be found in our l...

It's been a while since we discussed our respective upbringings and the experiences in our earlier lives that led to who we are now, so today we started reviewing George's personal history of queerness and transness. This episode contains content from his earliest memories until just before high school, and next episode will discuss experiences from late adolescence thru adulthood. We are here to...

We went to the Star Trek: San Francisco convention, and while we were in the bay area we saw some existing friends and made some new ones. Now we prepare for George to go to his sister's house and spring training, because we're packing in the travel before his next surgery. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you c...

George and Jess are both having difficulties keeping their hormones regulated, although in completely different ways and with completely different outcomes. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us know by clicking to a one-question anonymous survey at  vote.pollcode.com/3237137...

As George's recovery continues, we are finally getting back to enjoying what life we can, planning some non-surgery travel between parenting and work and other responsibilities. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us know by clicking to a one-question anonymous survey at  vote...

As George continues to recover from surgery, as swelling decreases and scars shrink and fade, we discuss how both he and Jess have felt about this process and about his nearly-complete outcomes. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us know by clicking to a one-question anonymou...

As George continued recovering from Sepsis and the most recent stage of his lower surgery, we continued to support the other elements of his physical and mental health. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us know by clicking to a one-question anonymous survey at  vote.pollcode...

When one of George's incisions from (what we had hoped would be) the last stage of his metoidioplasty got infected, it quickly became a bigger problem than expected. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us know by clicking to a one-question anonymous survey at  vote.pollcode.co...

One of George's incisions got infected, and we hope you'll forgive us if he's too busy recovering to record this week. See you next year!

The third stage of George's lower surgery is recovering well so far, meanwhile Jess is home parenting and managing the household, so we recorded from different locations to talk about it. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us know by clicking to a one-question anonymous surve...

As the lower surgery saga progresses, life doesn't quit, and Child#2 has required more of our time and energy than usual. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us know by clicking to a one-question anonymous survey at  vote.pollcode.com/32371374 . If you have a request/suggestio...