Christine,
Have to say I don't understand what all your questions have to do with responding to my post. None of it has a bearing on what the facts are.
While I may be wrong about it, the only reason I can think of would be that knowing the answers would affect how you judge what I say, or how you think I might judge what you say ... And I don't think either should be the case...
While we all have our own biases that we may be blind to, I know in discussons I try to be as objective as I can be... I don't think people should filter what they hear through preconceived notions about other people because of where they live what they do for a living etc... because people and life are more complex than assumptions based on such things.
As I have suffered 3D consequences from being too open about myself in the past on the open net, so I won't be too specific in answering your questions
Q1. What do/did you do professionally?
I work in biotech and always have worked in biotech or pharma
Q2. In want country do you live and if you live in the US, which state and city do you reside in?
USA ... In New England - Originally from a mid-Atlantic state.
Q3. What is your age?
I qualify for medicare... and it looks like I may not be able to keep my job much longer.
But if you want to get a better idea who I am you should know I came from a very difficult family situation I would not wish on my worst enemy (nothing to to with being T but that was there too) with no money in an inner city environment. My mother was a WWII refugee. My father was born in New England however both of his parents were immigrants - though from a different country than my mother.
I got a helping hand that got me out of a very bad home situation for high school. With no financial help from family (and a lot of family drama that made it harder and took huge emotional toll) I got myself through college and then got a master's degree in a physical science while working full time. Both of my parents were factory workers - when they worked - and they separated when I was very young.
A lot more was involved, surfice it to say I have always carried the emotional scars from my childhood... They formed a lot of who I am and how I interact with the world and even how I feel about myself.
Electrician, Plumber, Carpenter, Mechanic,
Those are skills I wish I had! The house needs lot of work and hiring good people (never mind finding them!) to do it is expensive!
January 1963 I was drafted into the US Army.
I just missed the draft ... If I had been just a little older, my life likely would have been very different! I remember worrying about it when I started high school. No connections (That famous CCR song comes to mind)
I have lived in Japan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Mexico, Southlake Texas and now make my home in Phoenix Arizona with Dena.
While I have moved a number of times, I have only lived in 3 states all with-in a 4-5hr drive of each other... Well, not completely true...
Back when I was too young to remember, my mother said we stayed for awhile with my godmother (whom I don't recall ever meeting) in Michigan... But that was only for a few months and then we came back to the city I was born in.
don't consume alcohol, never used illegal / recreational drugs, no longer use tobacco (05 March will be 52 years).
Glad you were able to kick the tobacco habit... my parents were smokers <yuck!>
I never drank or did drugs (and I was one of the few who did not in HS) or used tobacco. Despite being TS I have always been pretty boring!

Oh Yes.. TS... If it matters I transitioned 1996 and had SRS in 1997.
But as I said, ideally I don't think any of this should matter when discussing an issue... I guess that is the scientist in me!

-Karen