So It Begins

The first weekly Substack column from transgender comedian and culture writer Ian Thomas Malone (she/her)

When you have bottom surgery, the doctors typically have you stop taking hormones for two weeks to minimize risks while you’re under anesthesia. Going off hormones is kind of like if you had all the rage to tear a hole in the universe, but barely enough energy to get out of bed. It’s a barbaric form of torture only marginally worse than being a terminal…