Transgender Ironman Blog

Wow!  Welcome back :)

I don't know anything about blogging, so can't really help there, but I think this is fascinating and would  be interested in hearing about your journey.  In terms of training and racing I would be particularly interested to know if things feel different and what your energy level is like on HRT and specific performance changes. I would also be curious to know where you are in the process.  I'm not super familiar with it, but I thought there was some sort of waiting period for surgery and 22/23 sounds so young! 

Good for you for be willing to put yourself out there and answer questions.

Yes, I guess I would be interested in that too.  Do you need to declare yourself to the RD?  Even with surgery and HRT, I'm guessing years of muscle memory and athletics as a man could make a difference in performance, but I don't honestly know :)

Since you asked, I think a blog needs to have a point of view worth reading. If i want a list of workouts and a log of what someone did every day, I'll check a pro blog. Otherwise, i want to read about what this endurance sports lifestyle means to a person. So, with gender identity being tied to your existence so prominently right now in transition, the hormonl shifts and how it affects your training, your racing, your identity in the community, that would be interesting. If you have a desire to blog it, I take it you have a willingness to be honest and open about it, and that can be eye-opening for those of us with no experience with your life. At the same time, seeing your story would likely spark thought in others about their own understandings of gender. That can only be a good thing. I write about the perspective of a man fighting a lifetime of obesity. I have reached many folks who have never been obese, but relate on the human level nonetheless.

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Even if it isn't relevant, and I'm not willing to concede even that, it is certainly interesting and would make the blog something different than the typical 35-50 year old triathlete blogging about their life and training. It would be a niche blog but I suspect people would be more interested in that than anything in my relatively boring life.

I'm starting this blog to document my own experience with transitioning, training and racing in my second 140.6 race. I want to show people that I and everyone else in the transgender community are people with the same hopes, dreams and fears as everyone else. We need to show more people that we do the same things as our cis brothers and sisters. Also we are a very at risk community with very high rates of depression, suicide, discrimination and abuse to name a few. I also think it would be interesting to start something that most people, myself included have never seen before. My transition is the biggest and toughest thing I have ever done in my young life, Ironman is a fun cake walk! I have to go through so much more to garuntee that I can enjoy the activities I love. Not many people have to contact RD's about themselves and ask what they should do to sign up. So please take your time and read up on transgender related issues and even follow my blog if you'd like to. All I ask is that if you have nothing nice to say then just don't say it, plain and simple. Nothing can change the fact that I'm a girl like half of the population, i was just born physically make. Just please be respectful to me and the wider lgbt+ community as you would to anyone else. I hope you have a good afternoon and hope you expand your horizons! Everyone else thanks for the support and suggestions, keep the love coming! I hope to make my first post next Sunday!

Welcome to BT......You will find MOST of us welcoming and I applaud your honesty and bravery as apparently not everyone is accepting of your situation.  Good luck on your journey both in Triathlon and in life and FWIW I agree with Fred

Welcome to BT, I hope you have a great upcoming season and our journey through cisgender and transitioning goes well.

Welcome back to BT! 

Trigirl, as you said, not many people have had to call the RD and discuss gender issues. I find your position and the challenges you will face as you become and Ironman x2 very interesting and unique, and as such, your tri blog will be of interest to me. I wish you the best and good luck on your journey. Please continue to post.

Melissa

Welcome to BT!  As you have noticed, we are a very diverse group of people and  opinions.  I, for one, look forward to hearing of your journey and the things you learn about yourself, family, friends and society.

Blog on Trigirl!  I'd rather read about your journey than what kind of pedals are best.