Teri's Transgender Page
I am a transsexual woman living in
my gender reassignment surgery (GRS) with Dr.
Toby Meltzer in
(taken
(taken
(the car is a 1956 Messerschmitt owned by my
wonderful husband, Stephen, whom I met
WORDS TO LIVE BY:
"I might as well be hyper
As long as I'm still around
'Cause I'll have lots of time to be laid back
When I'm six feet underground"
-Weird Al Yankovic
Latest
News:
I don’t update this site very often any more, since I
consider the transition part of my life to be such ancient history it barely
seems real to me. However, I continue to speak to various interested groups and
you can still feel free to e-mail me. The TG community is no longer a top
priority for me, but I still keep my ties alive.
I have just posted three new (December, 2002) photos.
See photos2001.htm below.
Sorry, I can’t figure out hyperlinks in this new version of Word.)
Stephen and I
are now married!
We did a pre-marital course on April 13, 2002 and then decided it was time to
firm things up. On May 13 we ordered our rings. For
the story of our wedding and honeymoon, with photos, please see: wedding.htm
On October 18, 2002 I started the process of adopting
Stephen’s last name. This may sound very traditional, but it’s important to me.
Besides, by a fluke, his last name is the same as my father’s mother’s maiden
name, so it’s a name that has been in my family anyway.
In April,
2002 we
went on a “garage tour” with the local vintage sports car club—in a genuine
1968 Leyland double-decker bus.
Stephen asked me to
marry him on Saturday, October 20, 2001. For all the details about that please
see: proposal.htm
I have been somewhat
remiss in updating this site due to time constraints over the past few months.
However, a major update should happen in late-April-early May.
I have also updated
the section on post-op sex below.
Here are some
highlights of what I have been up to over the past few months:
*In late July,
2001 I
attended an annual conference held by my church in Asilomar, California (near
Monterey), then stayed with friends just north of San Francisco. While I was
down there I also got to visit to other Religious Scientists who are TSs. They
had contacted me through my web site and this was our first in-person meeting.
*In August my partner
Stephen and I went on our first holiday together. We drove down to Denver to
attend a harmonica convention, then on the way back stopped at the Little
Bighorn Battlefield in Montana, introduced Stephen to my Dad and stepmother in
northwestern Montana, spent three days at his family's cabin on the east side
of Lake Kootenay in British Columbia and visited his sister in a nearby hot
spring resort.
*Over the summer I
met and got on good terms with all of Stephen's siblings.
*I spent a lot of
time cleaning out the basement and the rest of the house to make room for
Stephen to move his things here (we have been effectively living together for
months, but his stuff is still at his old place).
*I have continued to
have electrolysis: another two hours on my brows, 1 1/4 hours on my face, 1 3/4
hours on my chest, 14 hours on my tummy and a half hour on my genitals (as of
October 22, 2001).
*I started back
teaching on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
*Stephen and I
attended a vintage car show September 15 which gave me my first chance to ride
in Stephen's Messerschmitt (the little red car shown above). We won first prize
in the "Other European" category.
* I gave a paper at a
conference on Japanese Studies in Saskatoon Oct 12.
*On October 17, 2001
I cancelled a facelift I had scheduled for December 12, 2001. I felt it was not
really necessary at this time and wanted to focus on improvng my finances.
*October 31-Nov 4,
2001 I did a presentation on my university's Positive Spaces anti-homophobia,
anti-transphobia campaign at the biennial conference of the Harry Benjamin
International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA).
*In the fall of 2001
and winter of 2002 I did a total of five sessions of diversity training on
transgender issues for the Calgary Police Service's new recruits.
Previous Updates:
I have now finished
my account of my labiaplasty in Portland May 16, 2001. Please see
For my latest photos,
including more of me in the funny little car shown above and a new one of me
and my cute boyfriend Stephen (despite
the file name, this file has photos from 2002 and will probably have 2003
eventually as well):
For details about my
sabbatical trip to Japan,
please see the photos at japanphotos2000.htm
and the text at japantext2001.htm (there is already over 170 pages of text
there-about 302K!)
Now
here's a guide to the whole site.
To find out more
about me, please click on one of the following topics. An asterisk indicates an
update on the date shown above beside "Latest News". At the
suggestion of a visitor to my site, each time I update a page I will put the
new stuff in italics and return the previous update's stuff to regular font.
My Profile: General
information about me. profile.htm
My Life Story: My
transgender story from childhood to today. life.htm
My secret past life revealed! See what I looked like before any surgery
or other feminization! oldme.htm
My Gender
Reassignment Surgery: Read the whole story, complete with pictures, in grsportland.htm
(this is a pretty big file and has a ton of pictures attached, so if you
have a slow modem you might want to download it without the images at first)...
*In response to numerous questions, here is a section on sex after
surgery. postopsex.htm
My Older Photo
Gallery: rltpix.htm (pictures posted go up to
August 26, 2000)
And if you're interested in ancient history, here are some even older
pictures of me:
My professional look for work (taken Feb. 10,
1999, posted Feb. 26). bizphoto.htm
Some casual snapshots (August 8, 1998 &
December 13, 1998). newphotos.htm
Some of my favorite glam photos from my days as a part-time
crossdresser. photos.htm
(A concerned reader suggested I delete these because they might give
someone (especially potential suitors) the wrong impression about the kind of
girl I am. I am a lot more conservative than they might suggest, but upon
reflection I decided to leave them up. I'm not ashamed of or embarrassed about
any part of my past. And as it turned out, when I met my soulmate, Stephen, he
was not concerned about those photos at all!)
My Big Story: The
full story of my GRS process.
I end up in the emergency ward just before my first cosmetic surgery! surgery1.htm
I watch the doctor take a chisel to my face. surgery2.htm
I cry my heart out after my third surgery. surgery3.htm
My Church: There are
numerous references to my church in these pages. Here are the websites of
my church here in
there is another larger one here at: http://www.positiveliving.org/
and our "denomination",
Religious Science: http://www.rsintl.org/
(please note that Religious Science has nothing
to do with Scientology or Christian Science)
My Big Dreams:
Professional and personal objectives; yes, there must be life after GRS! dreams.htm
Frequently
Asked Questions: On makeup, bathrooms, and all that. faq.htm
Transgender Links,
especially for Calgary! tgresources.htm
My Little List of Big
Words: Deciphering the alphabet soup of CD, TG, TV, TS, etc.words.htm
(latest
improvements to my cookie recipe)My Decadent Recipes: Chocolate, chocolate,
chocolate! recipes.htm
My First Adventure in
Japan (1998): My adventures with my TG friend Saya in Tokyo. adventure.htm
My
1999 Trip to
My First Trip to the USA as Teri: Friendly cops
& over-friendly hillbillies on a drive to Portland. usatrip.htm
To see the photos I took (including a couple of me), click: usatrippix.htm
My Photographer:
Visit Photography by Alexis. She took the professional photos on this site and
retains copyright over them (the snapshots were done by whomever I could draft
into service, so don't blame her for them!!)[she
should have a new site soon and I will put in a link as soon as it is up and
running]
My Club: The
Illusions Social Club in
My Clothes: Nowadays
I mostly buy my street clothes from Tall Girl, but when I was more into glam
clothes I got them custom-made by a local
My Friends: This page
has an ever-expanding series of links to the Web pages of friends of mine as
fast as I can get it set up! friends.htm
I should also
mention my good friend, Calgary's premier makeup artist and entertainer, Ty
Morgan, who taught me everything I know about makeup. Thanks, Ty! (and get a home page so I can link to it!)
I would be especially
interested in hearing from other tall TSs or academic T* folks. Iam
married,
so I'm not interested in proposals of a sexual nature. Please save the wear and
tear on your keyboard!
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number:
(I started this counter over again at zero on January 24, 1999, 8PM MST
because I had to change my URL due to an "upgrade" by the service provider.
Between December 20, 1998 and January 24, 1999 I had had 541 hits at the old
URL. In the week after my pictorial appeared in TG Forum January 25, 1999 I got
almost 500 hits!)
Unless
otherwise stated, the contents of this page are copyright "Teri" and
may not be used elsewhere in whole or in part without prior permission.
If you live in some
oppressive country, territory, state or province that makes it illegal for you
to view transgender material, whether in general or because of your age, do us both
a favour and don't do anything that could get you and or me in trouble. There
are no photos involving nudity or sex acts here, but there is frank discussion
of all kinds of sensitive topics related to transgenderism, crossdressing and
transsexualism.
This page was started
July 24, 1998. Last Updated: March 23, 2004. Consolidated with other site, March
8, 2007.