Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Seeking advice re traveling to Mexico as a trans woman

Having been invited to a wedding in Mexico, the issue of traveling as a trans woman to a new part of the world looms large. The main issue, I think, is my passport. While the photo reflects me, the name and gender do not. Is Mexico safe for me?

'passing' is not usually a problem, but then there is the issue of traveling as a queer couple (with my wife and child).

There are sacrifices I'd have to make in order to make this trip possible... Is it worth the hassle and stress?

Want to get a sense of how gender dysphoria feels? Imagine hating parts of your body so much that you wished cancer on them so there was a societally acceptable, unavoidable reason to remove them; I found myself here some years ago but was thankfully supported through proper gender-affirming surgery
As a pansexual, transgender woman who is also asexual, I feel like a walking paradox. A paradox that is complicated by the competing symptoms of autism and ADHD.
As stress, expectation and self-doubt build, I find myself falling into old coping mechanisms of self-abuse in various forms. The fact I notice this is a good thing, and that neither alcohol nor drugs are involved is also good. But my sadomasochistic self-relationship remains.
After an introductory Zoom meeting, I'm certain I'm starting my journey to being a therapist in September; one with a firm LGBTQIA+ focus. Time to do something meaningful & helpful for the queer community. Foundation, diploma, placements, maybe a masters. Next few years sorted!

Was my bilateral cryptorchidism an early indicator of being trans? I can't help but feel there is a link, but who knows?

It's a thought that comes to mind from time to time, but it has been brought back following recent wrist surgery for De Quervain's tenosynovitis. More than two weeks after being operated on, the nerves in my thumb remain, frankly, fucked. Completely numb in some places, pins ans needled in some, and random excruciating pain in others.

But it is the numbness that's intriguing. For as long as I have been aware of such things, I noted a complete lack of sensitivity on one side of my genitals. Nothing. It's so similar to the thumb numbness, it's hard not to draw comparisons....

If I talk about being sexually abused, being sexually assaulted, being sexually harassed, being sexually molested, about someone drugging and attempting to rape me, it's not because I want sympathy/ pity; I want you to understand the prism through which I experience the world now
An astonishingly difficult therapy session today. Still dealing with the trauma of multiple, unrelated instances of sexual abuse and assault in my late teens / early 20s. What made these men believe they had the right to use me and my body? What did they see?
I was officially diagnosed with autism yesterday... so that's a thing. Probable ADHD too, although that has not (yet) been specifically screened for. So that's another thing. Unsure what to make of it all so far, even though it is hardly a surprise.

Reflecting back over the years, it's hard not to ask 'what the fuck did I do to deserve that?'. Or have I just been outrageously unlucky in who I've met in life.

- Neglectful parents when growing up
- Parental violence and abuse
(None of the great is parent-related)
- Sexually assaulted
- Physically assaulted
- Sexually assaulted by a gang
- Victim of attempted rape
- Drugged to the point of hospitalisation
- Sexually harassed for years
- Sexually abused
- Long term relationship that was physically and emotionally abusive
- Followed by a second (not quite as long) long term relationship that was controlling and abusive