AndyG Projects

Sally Flegg Photography

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:22:00 +0000

still photography by Sally Flegg

part of the transitional body series in development

End of Financial Year Tax Deductions

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Tue, 07 May 2013 05:48:00 +0000

A little post update, hello, hi there! I'd like to say I'm in a state of calm and all things are going fabulously well right now, it's not that they aren't, it's just that all things financial and medical relating to this process are making themselves known to me like noisy kids in a less than comfortable way through my entire body endlessly. I look forward to having the stomach for 3 meals a day sometime again soon in the future (I'm not really kidding either - lucky to be here!).

Apparently I'm brave, as was told again by someone I was stressing to today, all I can really think of is what someone said to me right back at the start of this which was "if you feel like you can live and exist without doing this, try do so, it's not an easy road" ... at the time and still now the answer is "no unfortunately entirely not possible with where I'm existing from" but my god I am very much starting to understand what she meant on an entirely new level ... grey hair or ten here!

All things being all things right now, I wanted to put the idea out now that if any individual or company would like to or would find benefit in donating to this process (any amount from $10 - $150, 000) to receive an end of fin year tax deduction, there really is entirely no need to be shy at this point.

All information and submission link is listed here on this website.

I'm also open to discussions with anyone who would be interested additional business return opportunities come early 2014 once the film is produced, including percentage of sales and a few other legitimate perks. Shoot me a note, by all means share this link around to anyone who you think is compassionate to the cause and look out for some Channel 7 coverage of this story next week across a couple of shows (details to be shared on facebook as they come to hand).

Much love!

madison magazine's update

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:23:00 +0000

Click here for full article

This week's version of the story

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 02:18:00 +0000

http://www.thatslife.com.au/Article/Print/On-Sale/Magazine/Issue-13-On-Sale

What the bleep was I doing in India?!

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:32:00 +0000

Good question!

In summary this was my list of things I wanted to have happen while I was there. I imagine hopefully after reading this it'll be a case of thinking, why in the bleep would I not be there really when I have a pending nine hour surgery awaiting me when I find the rest of the $60,000 from somewhere (tba).

Two simple words really "surgery preparation". I was at an advanced no-ego retreat hosted by Brandon Bays and The Journey; a world leading company in the field of mind body healing, which you can read more about here. I use these tools which have been designed to access your healing potential, so that you heal more quickly. In summary working in the highest and best way with the body rather than against it.

Specifically I was focusing on the following:

Make sure I have my body's permission to undergo the surgery (as in making sure it's ready for it and wants it to happen)
Make sure my ego games are cleared and out of the way to ensure I'm not a high maintenance patient or that I'm in the way of the medical professionals when it's all happening - not necessarily for the light-hearted human (requires courage and surrender to truthfully look at and feel through this in yourself).
Practise healing stillness and body stillness (I won't be able to move much for a month)
Clear all my phobia's and anxieties around hospitals, surgeries, foreign places, site of blood, death (I have them all)
Clear any all subconscious negative beliefs of why this can't happen, and any death vows that I might have made as a child (they were there)
Come to a place of peace and resolve past resentments and negative experiences I've encountered throughout this process with others in society
Shamanic surgery preparation (this is beyond words to describe...best we have a coffee if you are interested in understanding this - has to do with body connection to the land in a spiritual sense)
Spend some time allowing the ethereal body to shift more into it's maleness
Explore the notion of fight to stand in truth vs fight to kill and how my behaviour patterns have played out in each way, if I'm to influence any change in the western world regarding trans standards of care and understanding
Discover more personal survival insights as to how the actor / artist is going to sustain itself through such a civilian medically driven and focused time for majority of this year
Physical detox away from meat, sugar, caffeine
Spend time with myself enjoying my own company away from the chaos that has been Sydney these past six months

For whatever reason it also became apparent throughout the week that to continue authentically on this path I needed my real name to be honoured in a spiritual sense by everyone there, which was entirely cool, profound and very unexpected for everyone until it happened, footage will be up on my youtube channel soon to have a squiz of.

Spiritually charged sites around the world like Mount Arunachala in India (Uluru in Australia etc) are incredible in all of their mystery, and I highly recommend they are on your list of places to visit at least once in this lifetime.

A Photo Shoot

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:24:00 +0000

Photographer Hayden Brotchie offered recently to have me as a subject for a creative photo shoot.

Please feel free to puruse his work below shot 8 March 2013.

“what makes Andrew an interesting photographic challenge for me is, he started life as a 'wo-man'. this is my attempt to capture his masculine side, life’s challenges, people perceptions, the journey and the near final stages of transformation”

Hayden Brotchie Photography

0400 112 892

www.haydenbrotchie.com

Necessary pre-surgery inquiry

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:19:00 +0000

I've mentioned prior that the private forums are the most informative and helpful and supportive spaces for any person going through a gender transition. You have access to information that you get no where else.

These two questions are the most vital I believe for any guy to create the non-attachment necessary for a healthy / healing procedure.

Always happy to privately share if anyone is curious to join the private groups what the addresses are - hit me up!

Australian Business Arts Foundation Initiative

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:36:00 +0000

Sydney actor Andrew Guy, formerly Anna, is documenting his gender transition journey. Andrew currently spends time working within the arts and is strongly influenced by a personal philanthropic vision. His recent acting work has raised awareness of self-healing, domestic violence and depression.

The key vision of this documentary is to alter perceptions and change prejudices of the term transgender and show's what it is to exist as this in Australia today. The intention is therefore to create a better, more accepting society across all levels; within the family unit, workplaces, the medical profession, and the media.

It is also intended to become an educational reference tool to service provider sectors of the community; the Police Force, medical faculties, public transport professionals - for use in their internal training environments.

The film began quite humbly with a couple of friends telling Andrew that they would like to document the changes of his transition as a personal memoir to look back on in coming years. “Once the actual process started and we all saw how dramatic the changes were,” he says “We all were a little like, Wow this needs to be a something – let’s see where it goes”.

“When I began to really get into the surgery side of things, I also really started to see how this is a very foreign and misunderstood phenomena in a lot of ways, and that it could do with being shared to breach the misunderstanding gaps.”

The documentary will see Andy interviewing medical professionals, psychologists, gender experts and other transmen to give a “flavour” of what it is to be a transman in today’s Australia. The film is also likely to include footage of his journey to San Francisco next year showing what remains for him one of the final missing pieces of his transformation.

“I’m doing fairly radical surgery which I feel I need to do,” he says. This type of surgery has been going on in the UK, US and Europe for 20 and 30 years now yet not available in Australia. “A lot of people here feel that it’s new and experimental and of not high enough quality. The results people are getting though are pretty amazing.”

How you can help

I am seeking financial support to complete the interviews with professionals and experts alike, alongside the personal filming I am conducting. This is in order to shed greater light onto the topic and discuss objectively the validity of it being deemed a mental disorder.

Specifically this will be for the recording, sound, and post production edit of this component.

I am interested in reaching out to individuals who are interested in supporting artistic cultural endeavours that connect Australians with differing topics to what is mostly seen in mainstream media. This is a film that I have long-committed to making for Australian and International audiences alike for general interest and educational purposes.

If you feel called to offer a tax deductible donation please click here:

Actor crowdsources trans reassignment | Star Observer

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:56:00 +0000

Actor crowdsources trans reassignment | Star Observer

I Love This! From the Urological Sciences Research Foundation

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:13:00 +0000

http://www.usrf.org/news/010308-guevedoces.html

The 'Guevedoces'
of the Dominican Republic

During the early 1970s, Dr. Julianne Imperato, a Cornell endocrinologist, conducted an expedition to the Dominican Republic to investigate reports of an isolated village where children appearing to be girls turned into men at puberty. In the village, these children were known as 'guevedoces' (literally, penis at 12 years). Also known locally as machihembras ('first women, then man'), these pseudohermaphrodites were documented serially in the following photographs published originally in the American Journal of Medicne (Am. J. Med. 62: 170-191, 1977):

In an isolated village of the southwestern Dominican Republic, 2% of the live births were in the 1970's, guevedoces (actually male pseudohermaphrodites). These children appeared to be girls at birth, but at puberty these 'girls' sprout muscles, testes, and a penis. For the rest of their lives they are men in nearly all respects (see photograph 6 below). Their underlying pathology was found to be a deficiency of the enzyme, 5-alpha Reductase.


1. At 18 months, the appearance is female though undescended testes are present.	2. Lacking dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in utero, this boy's external genitalia develop as female. However, internally the gonadal tissue is that of normal male and his karyotype is 46 XY (normal male).	3. In utero, DHT is essential for the normal male development of the external genitalia. After complete maturation, DHT seems to have no important biological function.

4. Just before puberty, prior to the testosterone outpouring, the phenotype is still female.	5. With the testosterone surge at puberty, the phenotype changes to male: the voice deepens, the testes descend, the phallus grows, erection and ejaculation begin, and a male psychosexual orientation develops.	6. And for the rest of their lives, the guevedoces resemble the other Dominican men in all respects except: * Beard growth is scanty. * There is no hairline recession. * None has acne. * The prostate remains small.

The story of the guevedoces was originally presented at a Federation meeting in Atlantic City, NJ in 1973 and published in Science in 1974 (Imperato-McGinley J, Guerrero L, Gautier T, Peterson RE. Steroid 5alpha-reductase deficiency in man: an inherited form of male pseudohermaphroditism. Science 1974 Dec 27; 186 (4170): 1213-5). Specific inhibition of 5-alpha Reductase is the mechanism of action of the prostate drug, finasteride (Proscar), which in adults, shrinks the prostate without affecting the male phenotype.

I Just Helped Raise A Man Fundraiser

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:48:00 +0000

For the months of November, December and January I am hosting a crowd-raiser for myself and other trans youth in Australia on pozible.com/andyg. Please take a moment to look at the offers below and if you feel inspired we'd be very grateful for your support.

Accepting all major 24 currencies, please click here to register your financial support and be a part of the journey.

Also be the first to view the documentary trailer 'It's Not About The Sex' featured on the crowd-raiser page:

AUD $10 + offering - This will give you the gift of love and joy knowing you've helped a transman reach the end of his documented journey.

AUD $30 + offering - This will give you a 6 x 8 print of the Andy Zipper Photograph initialed by him, the photographer and make-up artist that featured in the 2011 Midsummer Festival, Melbourne ... and the love and joy of knowing you've supported a transman reach the end of his documented journey.

AUD $50 + offering - This will give you your very own pair of limited edition "It's Not About The Sex" underwear produced by Sabi-Valence. You are welcome to chose the boy or girl style irrespective of your gender status ... and the love and joy of knowing you've supported a transman reach the end of his journey.

AUD $100 + offering - This will give you the pre-release (first view) of the finished documentary delivered straight to your email inbox to watch from the comfort of your home environment. You will also be invited to the public premiere viewing IF it is being shown in your city. You will also receive your very own pair of limited edition "It's Not About The Sex" underwear produced by Sabi-Valence ... and the love and joy of knowing you've supported a transman reach the end of his journey.

AUD $1000 + offering - This will give you a full day one-on-one mystery excursion with Andy in your closest capital city (and possible feature in the doco!). A day filled with fun, humor and excitement that you will remember always.

ALTERNATIVELY IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO OFFER A TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION OF ANY AMOUNT OVER $100 PLEASE EMAIL ME INSTEAD via andrewguy31@gmail.com with your name, address, phone and dollar amount. The Documentary Australia Foundation are also supporting this project.

This is the inaugural crowd-raising drive that will now happen annually to reduce mental duress of Australian trans youth and support longevity. We love to contribute to society in all the positive ways we can and not burden the ongoing dependent support systems anymore than necessary.

a response of silence

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:45:00 +0000

a response to the online cyber attacks and dissemination of a misleading press release (of my actions) sent out to media this past week

utmost gratitude for any support in silently sending out love to the orchestrator's of this behaviour

International Transgender Day of Remembrance

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:31:00 +0000

May they always be remembered and only give us greater permission

to step forth and create a more accepting and diversely loved world

(20 names too many)

'I JUST HELPED RAISE A MAN' Crowdraiser

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:02:00 +0000

AUD $10 + offering - This will give you the gift of love and joy knowing you've helped a transman reach the end of his documented journey.

Well if Kerri-Anne Kennerley is speaking about her breast cancer story on morning TV today I'm taking it's ok to share this

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:41:00 +0000

For anyone with any breast reconstruction issues I can't recommend Dr Steve Merten, Plastic Surgeon, enough. One of the souls who has helped save my life and very reasonably priced out of the six opinions / quotes I attained.

His last words to me before anesthesia "Andy if I didn't think this would work I wouldn't be doing it". The only words I believe a surgeon should be speaking prior to operating on you.

I am purposely not putting up a pre-shot here out of respect of the trans community who attract a lot of unnecessary sexual voyeurism if such pictures are consistently shown. Further insights can be seen in the documentary trailer 'It's Not About The Sex' view-able this coming Wednesday 31st October.

Pure Aesthetics

Macquarie Street

Sydney

http://www.pureaesthetics.com.au/

http://www.facebook.com/PureAestheticsSydney?fref=ts

'It's Not About The Sex' Trans Youth Crowdraiser Launching Oct 31st

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:20:00 +0000

when you can purchase your limited edition purest soft cotton underwear

amongst some other delights!

http://www.pozible.com/andyg - launching October 31st!

A REAL forum story that I'm not even sure I'm allowed to publish ... but it's WHY I'm doing what I'm about to do in this country. A read for everyone!

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:57:00 +0000

George drove me back to the apartment and then back to the hospital the next afternoon, to spend the night there before surgery. The room was nice, with purple floor and some purple on the walls. But it was lonely there, I wasn't allowed to leave my room- to give other patients privacy. When I wanted to go for a walk, they gave me a 7pm curfew!! And someone had to escort me to the front door and then from the front door back to my room.

Then came the preparations. It took forever to shave all my fur off; had I known I would shave from my belly down to my knees I would have used my electric shaver at home to make it easier. Then I had to take two of those things that make you poop, 3 hours apart. It really wasn't bad at all; I was expecting to have all this uncomfortable stuff but I guess I got lucky?

At midnight the nurse told me to turn the light off and get some sleep! I felt like I was in an orphanage, lol. The morning of surgery I met some other doctor and then they gave me some shot to put me to sleep and I didn't wake up until after surgery. Gradimir, the anaesthesia guy, was there singing to me when I woke up in my hospital bed. He gave me the arnica remedy I brought from home. And the earring they had to remove for me (because it had to be undone with plyers or something.)

I was miserable- my back and head were aching from lying down in one spot for the 9 hour surgery, and I wasn't allowed to move for 3 days. For some reason they couldn't even put a pillow under my back. I just kept rocking my head back and forth- the only thing I was allowed to move. A while later they rushed me back into the operating room for another surgery because of some bleeding that still hadn't stopped. This time they didn't put me out first- I got to see the OR and experience them moving me from my bed to the operating table. At last-- I got to move!! Then, obviously, they gave me anaesthesia...

I woke up in my hospital bed again, with Gradimir singing again, lol. He gave me more arnica. Total deja vu...

Wasn't allowed to drink for the first day, or eat for the first 3 days, and it turns out that the day of surgery didn't count as far as not moving for 3 days. But each day they let me love a little more, just not the leg they used to hook up the nerves and blood vessels.

The 2nd day post op I was able to move my arms enough to use my computer, which made all the difference. Miro also brought my iPod speakers from the apartment, which totally made me more comfortable and feel at home.

I wish I had brought mouthwash, as I couldn't brush my teeth the first 3 days because I couldn't move. I felt gross from not showering, and I need to wash my hair pretty often. I did a lot of meditating on my hunger and discomfort, accepting/embracing the situation I couldn't change, instead of fighting and rejecting it. Reminding myself that I had WANTED to do this surgery and was FORTUNATE that I finally had my wish come true. Pooping was a nightmare, using the bed pan and having a nurse clean up afterwards. It made those 3 days of not eating seem worth it :)

Day 4 I got out of bed for the first time. Felt like the walking dead! First thing I did was brush my teeth, wash my face, and run some water through my hair. Then I stood by the window to get some fresh air and look at the "view." I also stopped taking pain killers that day, because the injection hurt too much. I found that their tea relaxed me more than anything else, and I'm sure the arnica was helping too.

Day 6 post-op I was already getting in and out bed myself a few times a day, going to the bathroom on my own, and eating at a normal table. The next day I finally got to shower!! I came back to life! Got dressed and Marta drove me back to the apartment.

Marta was my angel during my stay in Serbia. Gorgeous, sensitive, gentle, respectful, funny; they couldn't have picked a better person to visit me every day, change the bandages and remove the drains. She visited me in the apartment a couple of times until my flight back around a week later.

Miro also came to visit once- and brought me a mug as a gift, which I found very touching- and decided that the following day I should come back to the hospital to have my staples and some stitches removed. When I got there, Miro asked if I mind being interviewed by a journalist who was doing some sort of something about the hospital. I had already been in a trans documentary at home, so I was used to being interviewed on film and was excited to be on Serbian t.v., lol. Afterwards, the journalist told me that I look very happy.

There's a beautiful park about a 5 minute walk from the apartment, though post-op it took more like a half hour. I managed to visit it twice, sat on a bench the first time and on the grass under a shady tree the second time (because some people had the nerve to occupy my bench!) The cool thing about having a catheter hanging out of your stomach is that you can take a leak without anyone noticing. You just kind of sit there doing whatever you were doing (i.e., nothing) while pee just trickles out of this tiny tube.

Miro was off to Japan the day before I flew home, and he had wanted to hang out with me the morning of his flight. He called to apologize that he doesn't have time, and to wish me all the best and that he hopes I'll be pleased with the results. From start to finish-- even from my first e-mail to him a year ago-- he was caring, patient, committed.

George drove me back to the airport and helped me with my luggage up to the check-in.

Funny story- for the first month post-op I have to walk with my thighs very far apart, to give my balls their space. When I landed and was getting my suitcase from the conveyer belt, an undercover cop stopped me because he thought I was smuggling drugs! And just as luck would have it, all my surgery papers were in the suitcase and I was in no shape to rummage through everything to find it, so it was easier to just pull my pants down for him. I was so excited to show Buddy off, but as soon as the cop saw the catheter and stitches he said it was enough... How disappointing that he didn't want me to unwrap Buddy's bandage...

I had my "period" the first 2.5 weeks post-op. It's normal to bleed anywhere between 2 weeks and 2 months after a vaginectomy. In the hospital, it was very uncomfortable, because the pad they put would move and then I would feel it trickling down. I also didn't like seeing the blood stain on my bed when I would get out. Another 2 dysphoric things were the sharp pain in my vagina if I would move too much, walk too far, etc., and also I couldn't find my balls the first like 8 days. Not only that, but when they were touched, I felt the same sensation as when my labia/clitoris were touched, so I was convinced that they forgot to do scrotoplasty. This dysphoria didn't go away until I got back to the apartment and saw part of them in the mirror.

3 weeks post-op I removed the stitches and catheter. The 2 nurses here were super trans friendly and even excited to see a phalloplasty. They kept saying what nice work Miro did, what a nice job. Toward the end, the nurse who had been holding Buddy up, announced that she's in the mood of a hot dog :)

The first few times I peed through my new urethra, I didn't notice any leaks, or thought that maybe it was just dripping back down. But then it started to really leak, so I switched back to the catheter coming out of my stomach. Next week I can try peeing again regularly. And I love how "regularly" means through my penis. Just the way I had always wanted it, the way that feels "right" to me.

Two days ago I took Buddy out to play for the first time. I took a really good look at him with a hand-held mirror, stroked him, held him in different positions and looked from different angles. It was really the first time I've ever seen him as part of my body (as opposed to this surgical thing I need to clean and be careful with and always have something supporting him so he doesn't fall off.) And I was filled with peace, love, and joy. A few hours later it really hit me- I just cried, as I repeated over and over:

"I'M FREE!"

Why requesting for my superannuation to be released is necessary and no it's not going to cover it all

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 06:13:00 +0000

Some days you just need to have someone in Government who actually understands! Thank god for these guys, seriously!

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:42:00 +0000

Who Doesn't Love A Busy Body Really!

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:20:00 +0000

Dear Susan Weeks,

Thanks for sharing your view and also ouch. It's unfortunate in my world view that you chose to view a human phenomena (and animals too actually - have a google of chickens) with such distane. I truly wander what it is that's happened to you in this life to make you feel such hatred towards a request for a Government to help its transgendered citizens. We are law abiding tax payers and have every right to ask for help in our quest for life supporting surgery, as does anyone who enters into the modern medical arena. I imagine you personally may need some additional financial support in your current life, in which case why not ask for that rather than project this hatred on me and my fellow community who cause you no personal harm.

A transgendered person instinctively feels themselves to be the other gender, or even if you wanted to expand your own world view, believe that gender is grey scale not black and white. They are seeking like all humans to find their true self and live happily and healthily.

The reality check is indeed happening for us as we chose to step into the change process rather than deny it and live a life of misery (or worse choose to end our lives as 30% of trans people do). I can't speak for what trans people did to survive hundereds of years ago as I wasn't alive then.

Simplistically the phenomena rests with parts of our brain and body physiology running instinctively as the other gender, so it's quite a distressing (painful) existence at times to have this in-congruence. If you felt like playing a bit, why not imagine yourself waking up tomorrow morning in the opposite body, it maybe fun for a day, but then add 11, 686 days to that and you'll be where I'm at, you may feel a little differently about the topic. This life supportive (saving) surgery is far from body mutilation, when you live in a body with the physiology running in this way you'll find it is actually open and welcome to the change (I have a scar healing quite miraculously without a stitch which popped itself out of my chest last week).

By all means feel free to call me a freak of nature (I quite enjoy that actually...you know, Silverchair!!) but please stay away from denying my community what they need, instead ask you local Government for what help you need.

Cheerio,

Andy!!

Upcoming Art To Be In The Know With!

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 10:11:00 +0000

Tomorrow is my "two year into transition" landmark (yes we're heading into the 'terrible twos'!) In celebration of such joy that's ahead, the facebook page of the upcoming feature documentary 'it's not about the sex' is up and available for likings... be the first to click here and Like It if you'd like first dibs at viewing the trailer coming October 31.

Also my good friend Gavin has been invited to take Felix to the Melbourne Fringe Festival next month. Feel free to go meet Felix if you'd like an enlightening and giggle filled night out!

Happy Wear It Purple DAY!

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:38:00 +0000

If you see anyone in neglect or being bullied for who they are, lend a hand and go up and say stop!
It's completely irrelevant to be unsupported in any way shape or form for who we are in this day in age.

September 7th! Remember the date, flash out your purple and celebrate love!

Another daily strategy to cut through the crap

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:08:00 +0000

Every single day that we're grateful for the extraordinary architectural creation called our being, our body and our life, is a day that we take another step towards manifesting our greatest potential and fulfilling our truest ingenious existance on this planet

Dr D.

Understanding Body Anatomy - Pertinent for Gender Reassignment & Everyone

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:53:00 +0000

So this is where my blog is going to go little 'below the belt' ... this is in no way meant to offend, only to offer insights into what 51% of the global population have as part of their anatomy. I am going to (in small doses) share the steps involved of how one creates a penis (the process of phalloplasty) that will look, operate and feel 90% similarly to if I had been born into male form, which ultimately is most congruent to me and reflective of the part of my brain (the stria terminalis) which if you viewed via scans would look like the part of a biological male brain.

For someone like myself at this point, the below is fairly pertinent information that I want myself and my chosen surgeon to know intimately.

To start here is some fairly well known (yet less talked about - Cleo and Cosmo aren't quite on it yet!) information about the classified 'female body form' sexual organ. Even though I currently possess this anatomy, through my experience with women, I've begun to understand that it has never functioned quite in the same as a biological female (as in the brain wiring has been running this show in an entirely different way - cool huh!). Or maybe not if you consider that a sexual experience for a female is different every time (if you know what I mean, you know what I mean!).

So to begin (more soon!) ... taken from http://blog.museumofsex.com/the-internal-clitoris/

In over five million years of human evolution, only one organ has come to exist for the sole purpose of providing pleasure – the clitoris. It is not required for reproduction. It doesn’t have a urethra running through it like the penis, and thus, does not urinate. Its sole function – its singular, wonderful purpose – is to make a woman feel good!

Sadly, it is precisely because the clitoris has no function apart from female pleasure that science has neglected to study it as intricately as the penis.

Try asking the next person you encounter to tell you where the clitoris is located. Having posed this question to others many times myself, I’ll guess that the majority of answers you receive will sound something like, “It’s that small bulb at the top of my lips,” or, “That’s the button up under the hood.” Although these responses aren’t exactly wrong, the interesting truth is that the majority of the clitoris is actually within the pelvis – that is, it’s far more internal than external.

The scientific name for the external “little button” or “bulb” is glans. Not to be confused with glands, glans simply refers to a small circular mass. This little structure contains approximately 8,000 sensory nerve fibers; more than anywhere else in the human body and nearly twice the amount found on the head of a penis. The glans is connected to the body or shaft of the internal clitoris, which is made up of two corpora cavernosa. When erect, the corpora cavernosa encompass the vagina on either side, as if they were wrapping around it giving it a big hug.

The corpus cavernosum also extends further, bifurcating again to form the two crura. These two legs extend up to 9cm, pointing toward the thighs when at rest, and stretching back toward the spine when erect. To picture them at rest, imagine the crura as a wishbone, coming together at the body of the clitoris where they attach to the pubic symphysis.

What does all this mean? Well, for starters, we can finally end that age-old debate of vaginal vs. clitoral orgasms.

In 1953, Kinsey wrote: “The vagina walls are quite insensitive in the great majority of females … There is no evidence that the vagina is ever the sole source of arousal, or even the primary source of erotic arousal in any female.”

Then in 1970, Germaine Greer published The Female Eunuch, which scoffed at Kinsey’s theory. She wrote, “It is nonsense to say that a woman feels nothing when a man is moving his penis inside her vagina. The orgasm is qualitatively different when the vagina can undulate around the penis instead of a vacancy.”

Interestingly, they’re both right. The vagina is not the sole source of arousal, though to stimulate the inner clitoris you can greatly do so by manipulating, displacing, and exploring the vagina with a penis or other apparatus.

Many women can bring themselves to orgasm without ever inserting anything inside of themselves. They are causing their internal clitoris to become erect and likely stimulating their glans, bulbs, and crura by rubbing themselves on the outside. The corpus cavernousum is the additional erectile tissue encompassing the vagina, and greatly erogenous when stimulated internally.

Let’s also remember, female orgasm is not solely about the clitoris and vagina either. It is far more complex and also involves the workings of multiple nerves, tissues, muscles, reflexes, and mental effort. Some women can think themselves to orgasm. Others can orgasm simply by flexing their pelvic muscles. Considering all the components involved plus the variability of human beings and their anatomies, it’s extremely important to remember no two people are the same. What works for one woman may not work for another. In other words, it’s all custom under the hood.

Alas it wasn’t until as recent as 2009, French researchers Dr. Odile Buisson and Dr. Pierre Foldès gave the medical world it’s first complete 3-D sonography of the stimulated clitoris. They did this work for three years without any proper funding. Thanks to them, we now understand how the erectile tissue of the clitoris engorges and surrounds the vagina – a complete breakthrough that explains how what we once considered to be a vaginal orgasm is actually an internal clitoral orgasm.

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Board Appointment

noreply@blogger.com (Andy) — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 06:05:00 +0000

With quite a bit of excitement, I'm happy to share that I've just been accepted onto the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Board as a Board Associate. The decision is two fold, first and foremost, having held a position with Tourism Australia working on new market development, the purpose is to offer expertise and assistance in collaboration with the appropriate organisations to increase the number of international visitors to the New Mardi Gras events (my social media channels currently have viewership in over 73 countries).

I'm also looking forward to providing specific analysis for the Board's lobbying use, as to what the approval of Gay Marriage will do economically for this country in the form of international revenue from marriage ceremonies, honeymoons and holidays etc.

Second fold, will be transgender rights and equality within Australia. I personally will be improving a few elements that I can see need to happen from my own experiences with the guidance and support of this platform.

This will be the first appointment of a transman to the Board in the history of this country (that we know of) and I'll be offering a voice to improve current levels of knowledge on the topic, medical treatment options, police force liaison, media coverage / inclusion and government policy (funding support).

If anyone would like to share any issues they have to this topic (rather than any personal issues of me) or change they would like to see implemented, please feel free to contact me anytime via andrewguy31@gmail.com. There is certainly room for committee(s) development which I entirely welcome from the community.

And on a side personal note I am still very actively acting, script writing, producing my documentary and funding the $US160k I require for my final surgery in the US which unfortunately is not 'elective' or 'cosmetic'.

Deeply appreciating the support here from Peter Urmson, Chair The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Board; Board Members; and Steph Sands; Founder Women Say Something.

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1. At 18 months, the appearance is female though undescended testes are present.

2. Lacking dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in utero, this boy's external genitalia develop as female. However, internally the gonadal tissue is that of normal male and his karyotype is 46 XY (normal male).

3. In utero, DHT is essential for the normal male development of the external genitalia. After complete maturation, DHT seems to have no important biological function.

4. Just before puberty, prior to the testosterone outpouring, the phenotype is still female.

5. With the testosterone surge at puberty, the phenotype changes to male: the voice deepens, the testes descend, the phallus grows, erection and ejaculation begin, and a male psychosexual orientation develops.

6. And for the rest of their lives, the guevedoces resemble the other Dominican men in all respects except:* Beard growth is scanty.* There is no hairline recession.* None has acne.* The prostate remains small.

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The 'Guevedoces'
of the Dominican Republic

6. And for the rest of their lives, the guevedoces resemble the other Dominican men in all respects except:
* Beard growth is scanty.
* There is no hairline recession.
* None has acne.
* The prostate remains small.