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The Disco Adventures

 
 
Disco is My Class War
07:22 / 23.08.02
Hey kids, it seems like it's been a while, and I thought I'd pop in to write some kinda update or semi-fictional account of my adventures lately, because they have been momentous and strange. Yesterday I got my first shot of T (aka testosterone, man juice, boygerms in a box, synthetic androgen hormones). Nothing has really happened yet, except a slight rise in temperature and a three am nightsweat. General weirdass hormonal upsets. I thought maybe when I woke up I would have sprouted a full glossy beard and my body would be all manly, but sadly this was not the case Guess it happens all slow and imperceptible like...

It feels like a crazy thing to do, and in general I am still amazed that I only had to go through eight months of doctorly hoops, psychatrists' appointments, questions like 'Do you want to have children?' and 'How long have you felt this way?' to get access to the drugs. Various new pronoun-y things are happening and people seem to do more double-takes on the street than they used to. My life continues apace. I still haven't told my parents. My driver's license still says F. I still mostly visit the ladies' because truly, the mens' stink like nothing else.

Yeah. Anyhow. Hola to people. I am glad Barbelith didn't shut down. And I'm trying to find a copy of Capital so I can join in the Head Shop discussion...
 
 
Shortfatdyke
07:52 / 23.08.02
Good to get an update. That bit about your first T shot not having as much effect as you thought it might made me laugh - the exact same thing was said by a transman on a prog about it a few weeks back. Takes about six weeks from what I hear to have a really noticeable (to the outside world anyway) effect. It's of particular interest to me at the moment because my best friend is now identifying as trans, has changed hir name and is passing as male. Well, mostly - se says se doesn't want to be wholly male and is having some difficulty in being accepted as trans in Berlin because of it. Se's already lost one job over it and so is beginning to see a whole new world of discrimination - any hassles on that front, Mr D?

Anyway, get yourself a blog so I can read loads more. And after the odd foray into the mens toilets myself over the years (queue avoidance dressed up as political statement) - I hear you about the smell thing!
 
 
Panda.
11:07 / 23.08.02
I went discoing last nite - Cream, in Amnesia (Ibiza) - VIP style, and then VIP-VIP style. Danced my tits off to Underworld´s Born Slippy on the balcony where the paid dancers strut their stuff, and got completely hammered on God-knows-what drug that was in the free drink A boy called Bobby from London gave me. I´m still screwed. It was cool though. It might have been a smart drink?

Basically I met up with this girl who´s father owned Cream in Liverpool and she got me in this place which even the rep who got us in Cream for free couldn´t get into. I was smiling like a madman. It was such a cool way to end my holiday.

And now I feel completely fucking knackered
 
 
Bill Posters
12:00 / 23.08.02
Jolly good show Mr D, and do keep us posted.
 
 
deja_vroom
12:37 / 23.08.02
still mostly visit the ladies' because truly, the mens' stink like nothing else.

Well just get used to it! It's a tough life in the manly army...

Hope things run smoothly and welcome aboard, mate
 
 
angel
13:00 / 23.08.02
Mr Disco - Wow! Tis truly an exiting and scarey adventure you are following. I really respect the fact that you are continuing to tread the path because it feels like the right thing to do (knowledge mostly gleaned from your previous postings on this topic).

I think you are really amazing and kinda feel privileged that you choose share this with us.

Thank you.
 
 
grant
14:38 / 23.08.02
Have the cooties started leaving? Or have they left already?

I suppose I'm asking too many nosy questions.


(explanation, just in case: every 8-year-old American boy KNOWS that girls have cooties. as i grow older, i find it to be more and more true: all girls do indeed have cooties. all of them. and they try to get them all over you, sometimes.)
 
 
Persephone
14:52 / 23.08.02
Well done, Disco.... I went to see my friend last weekend in the monologue show that he's in, and one of the performers was a ftm transsexual & had the best bit in the show:

It's all right to be a lesbian, you know.
I know. But I'm not a lesbian, I'm a transsexual.
Oh? Male to female?
Female to male. (beat) Thanks.
 
 
Ganesh
15:10 / 23.08.02
Nice one, Mr Disco! I think you ought to notice changes in the pitch of your voice soon, if you haven't already.

Eight months seems a little longer than average for starting the ol' hormones; the Life Test is more geared toward those whose eventual aim is surgery. Questions about kids, etc. are relevant to some.

Keep us informed, eh? Given that I'll be empowered to prescribe testosterone to trans men in the near future, I'm keen to get a first-hand account of the effects and side-effects you experience...
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
16:48 / 23.08.02
Interesting stuff. You rock.
 
 
ill tonic
19:41 / 23.08.02
Good luck, Mister Disco. (I second SFD's idea of blogging about your experience ... )

Cooties - LOL!
 
 
Margin Walker
21:35 / 23.08.02
Monsieur Disco! Hey, welcome back! Does this mean you're going to start answering questions again in the "Hey Mister Disco!" thread?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:06 / 24.08.02
Your Barbelith Needs Disco!

Good to have you back, and glad to hear things are moving forwards on the T front... There will be more e-mails soon, I promise, no really, honestly, argh, I am so lame.

(And haha, I feel very privileged and smug to know of the existence of not one but two Disco-tastic blog-type things. It's not for me to say though...)
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
14:10 / 24.08.02
I second SFD's idea of blogging about your experience ...

Thirded.
 
 
Disco is My Class War
03:23 / 27.08.02
Yeah, it's true, I have a blog. Two of them. Although the one that I'm blogging about trans stuff is slightly friends-only. Maybe I can message you the url if you're interested...

I don't know about cooties. You Americans are weird. Maybe if I have boygerms they'll kill all the cooties?
 
 
Cat Chant
07:25 / 27.08.02
Missed you! Congratulations! (Though you do realize this puts paid to any notion of me becoming a separatist - an ideology with a certain naive charm. But, quite probably, no muscle.)

I'd love to see your transblog, if that's okay.

PS: Is it not only American girls that have cooties?
 
 
grant
15:19 / 27.08.02
Boygerms and cooties are, as my researches have led me to understand, mutually incompatible except under rare circumstances. They can coexist within one individual's system, but typically predate upon one another to such a degree that one population wins out over the other.
Cooties spread like wildfire, but boygerms have staying power.

And yes, cooties are indeed universal. There are mutant varieties, but always recognizable, in the end, as cooties.
 
 
grant
15:29 / 27.08.02
You may find this device useful in getting rid of them.

And here is some natural history (anecdotal, of course).
 
  
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