Other factors determine hair length. I am a cis woman, and my cis son can grow longer hairthan I. Keep the ends trimmed, though–it makes the hair look thicker.
Also, what did coming out to your family actually entail? I’ve gotten the impression from other posts and twitter and whatnot that you were already generally presenting in a way typically read as female, and were at least out to your family as some flavour of genderqueer – I seem to have the impression from somewhere that you’d already worn a dress to a family thing at least once, though I can’t find a source and could be horribly wrong. What did they know before that’s different from what they know now?
I’m not sure what this was supposed to put in context. Reading it as a bi and often gender-fluid woman who is not conventionally attractive (although I am white) it felt like I was looking at someone’s competitive side going “look I can do it better!” It might just be the tada! pose at the end. Maybe it’s also just odd timing coming on the tail of those last two discussions. This actually took away context for me. I also feel weird seeing this because the points brought up about being verbally made aware of someone else’s opinions of one’s looks and it feels to me like that’s what some of the point of this was, like it was proof of something. But again, that just might be because it feels like chapter 3 on attraction discussion.
Zinnia!!! Congrats, way to do it! I’m 20+ years post op, but I’ve been a fan of yours for 3 months!
I think you are great, very cool, seriously super-smart (aren’t most of us?), and I’ve been so amused and charmed by your transition, as shown above! I also love your sense of humor and sort of dead-pan, but mocking looks/expressions.
You iconic lipstick has (partly) influenced me to go back to wearing some after 15 years or so!
I just wanted to say: squee! You look fantastic.
I hope HRT is everything you dream it will be, and hopefully I’ll join you in the ‘has oestrogen’ club soon!
YAY ZINNIA! -balloons, kittens, confetti, cake and recreational drugs of choice- Milestones are awesome. I can’t claim nearly the same status, but I’m super super ecstatic because I went to Mac with a friend yesterday and bought foundation…only, when the person put it on me it felt more like SUPER MAGICAL AWESOME STUFF THAT DISAPPEARS ALL THE EVIL FACE STUBBLE =D =D =D
Your hair in the 38 months picture looks eerily similar to how mine is now (though, probably a bit better styled). I even try to use that style sometimes, but I can never get it to stay ><;; I'm also having some trouble figuring out the right clothes, though I've found that I'm a bit more confusing when I wear an opened button shirt (I've also taken to wearing GQ pride flags on these shirts ^^; ) over one of my regular T-shirts. Any advice?
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On a more personal note, thank you so much for posting this. Seeing anti-narrative stories like yours makes me (and probably many others) way more confident and happy about myself. We need more of them.
Add me to the list of people who want to know how the hell you get your hair to grow that fast without looking like a furze bush! Mine’s long but it splits terribly and so I end up having to cut the ends of quite regularly. *sigh*
Congrats about the HRT, please do update us on how it’s going! All the best.
See, this only makes me feel like I’m not gonna be able to pull it off when I start. You were already fairly feminine from the start. I’m relatively masculine in my facial structure :(
[...] I’m in a ridiculously good mood because of estrogen, but that could just be the elation of finally getting started. Did I cry at a movie on the Oxygen channel because of hormones, or was the movie [...]
Zinnia Jones is an atheist activist, writer and videoblogger focusing on the impact of religious belief, political follies and LGBTQ rights. Since 2008, her videos have been viewed over 7 million times and her articles have been featured in the Huffington Post, The New Civil Rights Movement, and The Fight magazine in LA. Originally from Chicago, she's currently living in Florida with her partner Heather and their two children. She is still insufferably Midwestern. Her pleasures include picking apart everyone's arguments, rationality, feminism, philosophy, transhumanism and pet rats. You can reach her at [email protected] or on Twitter at @ZJemptv, and her YouTube channel is at www.zinniajones.com.
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Unsuch
September 23, 2012 at 11:53 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Well done! I’ll be starting hormones soon too, I’ve just been delayed by blood test results not coming through.
natashayar-routh
September 23, 2012 at 11:55 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
W00T! you, a fascinating timeline and record of transformation. I hope you enjoy HRT as much as I have over he last 27 months.
The Nerd
September 23, 2012 at 12:18 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Smashing!
San
September 23, 2012 at 12:55 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Congrats on getting HRT!
sc_43598d7a9185fb7de53e94601c54059d
September 23, 2012 at 1:24 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Cool, how about a post on your secret to long hair, mine never grows longer than a little below my shoulders but I never trim the ends off.
I used to go to Mexico (where U don’t need a prescription) to buy Premarin, they used to sell the 2.5mg but now only 1.25 or less.
barbrykost
September 23, 2012 at 1:42 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Other factors determine hair length. I am a cis woman, and my cis son can grow longer hairthan I. Keep the ends trimmed, though–it makes the hair look thicker.
mimi
September 27, 2012 at 7:34 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hair length is hereditary, male or female doesn’t matter. My hair stops fairly short, and I’ve been a woman all my life
Dalillama, Schmott Guy
September 23, 2012 at 1:41 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Congratulations. Glad to see some good news.
Brad
September 23, 2012 at 2:22 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Congrats!
(e)m
September 23, 2012 at 2:56 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Congratulations on starting HRT. That step is still a long way off for me. I love your timeline.
Belle
September 23, 2012 at 3:24 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Damn. You looked that good pre HRT? I admit to being incredibly jealous.
Mym
September 23, 2012 at 5:19 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Seriously, I see this and it looks like a baby butch dyke becoming femme…
Mym
September 23, 2012 at 5:31 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Also, what did coming out to your family actually entail? I’ve gotten the impression from other posts and twitter and whatnot that you were already generally presenting in a way typically read as female, and were at least out to your family as some flavour of genderqueer – I seem to have the impression from somewhere that you’d already worn a dress to a family thing at least once, though I can’t find a source and could be horribly wrong. What did they know before that’s different from what they know now?
katansi
September 23, 2012 at 5:54 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’m not sure what this was supposed to put in context. Reading it as a bi and often gender-fluid woman who is not conventionally attractive (although I am white) it felt like I was looking at someone’s competitive side going “look I can do it better!” It might just be the tada! pose at the end. Maybe it’s also just odd timing coming on the tail of those last two discussions. This actually took away context for me. I also feel weird seeing this because the points brought up about being verbally made aware of someone else’s opinions of one’s looks and it feels to me like that’s what some of the point of this was, like it was proof of something. But again, that just might be because it feels like chapter 3 on attraction discussion.
Renee Woodard
September 23, 2012 at 6:50 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Zinnia!!! Congrats, way to do it! I’m 20+ years post op, but I’ve been a fan of yours for 3 months!
I think you are great, very cool, seriously super-smart (aren’t most of us?), and I’ve been so amused and charmed by your transition, as shown above! I also love your sense of humor and sort of dead-pan, but mocking looks/expressions.
You iconic lipstick has (partly) influenced me to go back to wearing some after 15 years or so!
Cheers and Big Hugs,
Renee
Happiestsadist, opener of the Crack of Doom
September 23, 2012 at 7:12 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Congratulations!
Also, if I may ask: What lipstick is that? I’ve been trying to branch out of straight red and nudish colours, and I have envy.
natashatasha
September 23, 2012 at 7:27 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I just wanted to say: squee! You look fantastic.
I hope HRT is everything you dream it will be, and hopefully I’ll join you in the ‘has oestrogen’ club soon!
Setár, genderqueer Elf-Sheriff of Atheism+
September 23, 2012 at 11:07 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
YAY ZINNIA! -balloons, kittens, confetti, cake and recreational drugs of choice- Milestones are awesome. I can’t claim nearly the same status, but I’m super super ecstatic because I went to Mac with a friend yesterday and bought foundation…only, when the person put it on me it felt more like SUPER MAGICAL AWESOME STUFF THAT DISAPPEARS ALL THE EVIL FACE STUBBLE =D =D =D
Your hair in the 38 months picture looks eerily similar to how mine is now (though, probably a bit better styled). I even try to use that style sometimes, but I can never get it to stay ><;; I'm also having some trouble figuring out the right clothes, though I've found that I'm a bit more confusing when I wear an opened button shirt (I've also taken to wearing GQ pride flags on these shirts ^^; ) over one of my regular T-shirts. Any advice?
—
On a more personal note, thank you so much for posting this. Seeing anti-narrative stories like yours makes me (and probably many others) way more confident and happy about myself. We need more of them.
BecomingJulie
September 24, 2012 at 3:39 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Congratulations :) :) :)
Xanthë
September 24, 2012 at 3:39 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Congratulations Zinnia! I’m nearly at that point now (pending two more psych consults and getting to the endo), and so I hope it’s worth wait for you.
embertine
September 24, 2012 at 5:18 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Add me to the list of people who want to know how the hell you get your hair to grow that fast without looking like a furze bush! Mine’s long but it splits terribly and so I end up having to cut the ends of quite regularly. *sigh*
Congrats about the HRT, please do update us on how it’s going! All the best.
brucecoppola
September 24, 2012 at 9:53 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yes, yes, very nice. But I really like the “God is busy” t-shirt!
Srsly, congratulations, and thanks to you and Natalie for raising this fiftysomething cis hetero male’s consciousness.
grumphis
September 24, 2012 at 11:24 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hooray! So happy for you, Zinnia!
Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
September 25, 2012 at 8:12 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
See, this only makes me feel like I’m not gonna be able to pull it off when I start. You were already fairly feminine from the start. I’m relatively masculine in my facial structure :(
Triffus
September 25, 2012 at 4:54 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
May the the great RNG in the sky treat you with compassion.
In other words good luck Zinnia :)
William Brinkman
September 25, 2012 at 6:44 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Good luck!
ButchKitties
September 26, 2012 at 10:21 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If you have any tricks or tips on how you get your hair so perfectly Cher-in-the-60s straight, please share. :)
Lorehead
September 27, 2012 at 6:14 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Mazel tov! And thank you for sharing this milestone.
mimi
September 27, 2012 at 7:36 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
You look great in all 8 permutations.
Lady pills: Talking about HRT in a sexist society | Zinnia Jones
September 29, 2012 at 12:23 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
[...] I’m in a ridiculously good mood because of estrogen, but that could just be the elation of finally getting started. Did I cry at a movie on the Oxygen channel because of hormones, or was the movie [...]