He's growing up!

He's 15 today, that would be Max!  It seems like all of this is going pretty smoothly now.  We are out and getting acceptance from everyone we have told.  Testosterone starts soon.  On to looking into surgery next.  I just have to say Happy Birthday my son!  I love you!

Insurance and Dr visits

So far so good on the Dr visits for our Endo.   I figured they might cover the first visit since it was a referral and a consultation, but figured since our diagnosis is transgender that nothing else would be covered.  However, I just looked at visit #2 with Endo and they PAID!  Yeah!  I'm so happy about this, anything that can be covered by insurance that I pay HUNDREDS of $$ for monthly is a great weight lifted off my shoulders.  Especially since we know that we will have to pay cash for surgery. 

Just to answer the question of WHY we would allow for our child to get surgery.  I'd have to say live with him!  Watch him struggle with his body.  Watch him avoid showers.  Watch him not go swimming.  Watch him wear two/three shirts to bulk up.  Watch him be uncomfortable in his binders.  Watch him walk with a hunch to help hide his chest.  He NEEDS to have this and just like any other surgery a child might need to "fix" a disability, we have to give this to him. 

I already tried to make my son be a girl.  I already tried to convince him he is a girl.  This is NOT going away and I believe in the deepest of my heart that he truly IS a boy.

Dr visits, news and snags

As expected our Endo visit went wonderful.  We have really been blessed with the best Dr we could have ever found.  She not only has the best bedside manner, she's fun, knowledgeable and spends actual TIME with you.  So our next step is starting hormones.  This exam was a physical exam plus blood work.  Snags:  Max and I went to the lab.  Besides it taking two hour wait, NOTE TO SELF: get an appt, even when they say walk ins welcome.  So I come prepared, have my paperwork, etc.  I let them know about the name change, and that it is now changed with the insurance.  I even made sure I pointed it out to the woman putting the info into the computer.  So we sit and sit, then there is comes....."MAKENZIE"...they called!!  UGH.  Max and I both felt our hearts drop, WHY do people have to be insensitive??
And NEWS:  We now have a birth certificate with Max's name, and the other changes with Social Security with new card.  We also now have our note from our Dr. so next step is Passport.  The happy news there is that we will be able to use the gender MALE on the passport, which in turn let's us put male on his state ID.  That would also mean he could have a driver's license with his proper name and gender.


ABC has continued to follow him for the documentary.  They are coming back after our vacation.

So on a good note:  no episodes at the airport today.  No scanners or pat downs for us.  TSA seems to have a mission each day.  They must meet in the AM to find out who they are to target today.  On this day it was old ladies.  The two people that were getting pat downs were old ladies.  There has got to be a better way.