For many who wish to transition from female to male or vice verse it can be a lonely but satisfying road, with a taste that is be bitter sweet.  The joy and happiness that one can experience while transiting, is the understanding of who you are.  There is often a period of mourning when it come to the changes.   The mourning comes from family member and friends who do not always share or understand what you are going though.   They are often uneducated on the topic of transitioning due to the lack of information that is available within their own community.  There are times when they do not understand the feeling of being a prisoner within your own body.  This feeling of being contain like a prisoner is commonly shared trough out our transgender community.

When it comes to Men/Transmen/ Transmasculine individuals, sexual health is not always a high priority. (For the rest of the article I will just use men to make it simple)

There are some guys who have been so afraid of "catching" something that they are ULTRA safe or resulted to a life of being “Asexual". For this article I want to talk more about how to be safe when it comes to having sex and how to make safer sex fun. I also plan to offer tips about how to "assess" your risk in different situations.

First off what is sex? Everyone defines sex in different ways. Some people only consider a penis in a vagina sex BUT there are all types of sexual acts that people can engage in that can put them at risk for HIV/STD.

As if transitioning isn't hard enough on its own, it costs money. Whether it's hormones, therapy, surgery or transition products, it is very rare that you will be able to use insurance to cover every cost. With a declining economy, it’s hard enough for anyone to find a job, let alone a transitioning transgender person. In this article, I will go over the costs of transition as well as ways to pay for those costs.

When we first make the decision to transition, money is not what we are usually focused on. We want to be happy and will do anything to get there. However, after we get started money seems to get in the way of a lot of people. Some of us have families to support, some of us have mortgage payments and car payments and some of us have other important medical issues. We don't all have the ability to open our wallets to the billers or to have over a credit card. This can be especially hard in mid transition when one runs out of hormones and can't afford to pay for a new prescription or we schedule surgery and then have to cancel because we can't raise the money.