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Life After a Vulvoplasty IV – The Human Spirit

This post is the last of four in a series about life a few years after my vulvoplasty. Here I take a different approach and […]

Posted on 2025.11.142025.12.05 by Franches
Posted in Decisions, Experiences, GRS/SRS/Genital Reconstruction, SurgeryTagged #humanspirit, #introspect, #ready, #sameperson1 Comment

Life After a Vulvoplasty III – Hedonism

This is the third instalment in a series of four articles discussing life after my vulvoplasty. If you thought the first two articles were personal, […]

Posted on 2025.11.142025.12.05 by Franches
Posted in Experiences, GRS/SRS/Genital Reconstruction, SurgeryTagged #gettinginthezone, #intimate, #pleasure

Vida después de la vulvoplastia IV – El espíritu humano

Este es el último artículo en la serie de cuatro hablando de cómo ha sido mi vida a partir de mi vulvoplastia. Esta entrada la […]

Posted on 2025.11.142025.12.05 by Franches
Posted in En Español, Experiences, GRS/SRS/Genital Reconstruction, SurgeryTagged #espírituhumano, #introspeción, #mismapersona1 Comment

Vida después de la vulvoplastia III – Hedonismo

Este es el tercer episodio en la serie de cuatro donde hablo sobre mi vida unos años después de la vulvoplastia. Si pensaste que los […]

Posted on 2025.11.142025.12.05 by Franches
Posted in En Español, Experiences, GRS/SRS/Genital Reconstruction, SurgeryTagged #íntimo1 Comment

Life After a Vulvoplasty II – Untethering & Physical Appearance

This is the second article talking about how my life is now after my vulvoplasty. Here I talk about the type of untethering I felt […]

Posted on 2025.11.062025.12.05 by Franches
Posted in Experiences, GRS/SRS/Genital Reconstruction, SurgeryTagged #freedom, #IhateScars, #safety2 Comments

Life After a Vulvoplasty I – My Pragmatic Introduction

No one should care about what’s between my legs, but I’m going to tell you with a good level of detail. More importantly here you’ll […]

Posted on 2025.11.062025.12.05 by Franches
Posted in Experiences, GRS/SRS/Genital Reconstruction, SurgeryTagged #changes, #newanatomy, #vulvoplasty2 Comments

Vida después de la vulvoplastia II – Desamarre y aspecto físico

Este es el segundo artículo sobre cómo es mi vida ahora después de varios años de mi vulvoplastia. Aquí hablo sobre la sensación de desamarre […]

Posted on 2025.11.062025.12.05 by Franches
Posted in En Español, Experiences, GRS/SRS/Genital Reconstruction, SurgeryTagged #desamarre, #OdioLasCicatrices, #seguridad2 Comments

Vida después de la vulvoplastia I – Introducción pragmática

A nadie le importa lo que tenga entre las piernas, pero te voy a decir con lujo de detalle. Es más, aquí te voy a […]

Posted on 2025.11.062025.12.05 by Franches
Posted in En Español, Experiences, GRS/SRS/Genital Reconstruction, SurgeryTagged #anatomíanueva, #cambios, #vulvoplastia2 Comments

Prepping For Recovery After my Vulvoplasty

I am sure that my preparations for recovery from my vulvoplasty helped me be happy with my results. In my opinion recovery is the Holy […]

Posted on 2021.10.012024.03.03 by Franches
Posted in Experiences, GRS/SRS/Genital Reconstruction, SurgeryTagged #experience, #goodrecovery, #planning, #surgery1 Comment

Bracing For Genital Surgery Via Knowledge

I was skeptical about genital reconstruction surgery because I didn’t know enough about it. After I allowed myself to truly consider an operation I needed […]

Posted on 2021.10.012024.03.03 by Franches
Posted in Experiences, GRS/SRS/Genital Reconstruction, SurgeryTagged #decision, #experience, #learning, #surgery4 Comments

The Dare of Genital Surgery

I had a hard time starting to consider genital surgery (AKA ‘lower surgery’). My brain would shutdown its thought process every time I pondered about […]

Posted on 2021.10.012024.03.03 by Franches
Posted in Experiences, GRS/SRS/Genital Reconstruction, SurgeryTagged #apprehension, #decision, #experience, #myself, #personal, #surgery, #thoughts, #unsure7 Comments

The Burden of Privilege

After changing my gender expression I found some special advantages I didn’t expect to ever have. I’ve been thinking a lot about the seemingly innocuous […]

Posted on 2021.09.072024.03.03 by Franches
Posted in Experiences, Joys & Regrets, Surgery, ThoughtsTagged #apprehension, #behaviour, #contradictions, #doubts3 Comments

Details About my Hair Transplant

Back in 2020 one of my lovely readers reached out asking for details about my hair transplant. They were considering their options to make their […]

Posted on 2021.09.022024.05.19 by Franches
Posted in Experiences, FFS, HT, SurgeryTagged #decision, #experience, #ffs, #hairline, #positiveexperiences, #surgery, #trans3 Comments

Opening Up About Why I Chose a Vulvoplasty

Writing about why I chose a vulvoplasty is extremely personal and makes me feel exposed and vulnerable, for some reason… So I’m going to take […]

Posted on 2020.05.272025.09.27 by Franches
Posted in Decisions, Experiences, GRS/SRS/Genital Reconstruction, SurgeryTagged #exposed, #genderaffirmingsurgery, #pride, #vulnerable, #vulvoplasty7 Comments

How I Chose My FFS Procedures

A few years ago, here on HolaSoyYo.com, I published a post on the 4 stages that I went through to choose my FFS procedures. Today […]

Posted on 2020.05.012024.05.19 by Franches
Posted in Experiences, FFS, NEWS, SurgeryTagged #beyondgender, #experience, #facialteam, #ffs, #trans, #transition

Social Media For Surgery Research

As part of my group of articles on ‘My Approach to FFS Surgery Research’, I’m honoured that the 4th and final article in this series […]

Posted on 2020.04.252024.04.29 by Franches
Posted in BA, Experiences, FFS, NEWS, SurgeryTagged #beyondgender, #experience, #facialteam, #ffs, #trans, #transition

Online Videos as a Research Tool For FFS

FACIALTEAM recently published an article I wrote on how watching videos on the topic of FFS helped me shortlist surgeons. I watched all sorts of […]

Posted on 2020.04.172024.04.29 by Franches
Posted in Experiences, FFS, NEWS, SurgeryTagged #beyondgender, #experience, #facialteam, #ffs, #trans, #transition

Another of my Posts on FACIALTEAM’s Blog!

News Flash: I’m super proud to announce that FACIALTEAM just published another of my articles! Yay! This feature talks about how I used multiple surgeons’ […]

Posted on 2020.04.082024.04.29 by Franches
Posted in Experiences, FFS, NEWS, SurgeryTagged #beyondgender, #experience, #facialteam, #ffs, #trans, #transition1 Comment

How I Used The Internet For Surgery Research

After all my research, short listing, and eventually booking my different surgeries I wrote a lot about my process and methodology. I’m honoured that my […]

Posted on 2020.03.182024.04.29 by Franches
Posted in BA, Experiences, FFS, NEWS, SurgeryTagged #beyondgender, #experience, #facialteam, #ffs, #tans, #transition2 Comments

No One Knew About Surgery

For my 4th gender expression surgery in November of 2019 I chose not to share it with anyone… Well, mostly anyone. Some few people knew; […]

Posted on 2019.12.282024.04.29 by Franches
Posted in Decisions, GRS/SRS/Genital Reconstruction, SurgeryTagged #decision, #experience, #me, #personal, #surgery, #trans, #veryprivate9 Comments

Last Minute Decision

Though I had been thinking of the 4th surgery long before even the 3rd surgery (BA), I did not make the decision to go ahead […]

Posted on 2019.12.272024.04.29 by Franches
Posted in Decisions, Experiences, GRS/SRS/Genital Reconstruction, SurgeryTagged #decision, #me, #surgery, #veryprivate2 Comments

2nd. FACIALTEAM Blog – Where to Have FFS

My second blog post on FACIALTEAM’s blog has been published!  This time I go in depth on how I decided to choose FACIALTEAM in Marbella […]

Posted on 2019.11.152024.04.29 by Franches
Posted in Experiences, FFS, NEWS, SurgeryTagged #beyondgender, #experience, #facialteam, #ffs, #trans, #transition

Guest Column on FACIALTEAM’s Blog

I’m very proud to share with you that my first guest column post has been published on the FACIALTEAM’s blog! Check it out here.  It’s […]

Posted on 2019.10.152024.04.29 by Franches
Posted in Experiences, FFS, NEWS, SurgeryTagged #beyondgender, #experience, #facialteam, #ffs, #trans, #transition

I Got Boobs!

This may sound like a celebration of a recent breast augmentation (BA) surgery but the fact is that I had mine back in November of […]

Posted on 2019.04.072024.04.29 by Franches
Posted in BA, Contradictions, Joys, Joys & Regrets, Surgery, ThoughtsTagged #awareness, #breastaugmentation, #cantbelieveimdoingthis, #personal, #presentation, #surgery, #thoughts, #trans, #transition, #understanding

Advice When Choosing a Surgeon

Someone on social media posted a question that was something to the effect of: “What advice would you give me when choosing between FFS surgeons?” […]

Posted on 2019.02.082024.04.29 by Franches
Posted in Advice, Experiences, FAQ, FFS, Opinion, SurgeryTagged #decision, #experience, #facialteam, #ffs, #learning, #personal, #positiveexperiences, #surgery, #trans, #understanding2 Comments

The Pretty Sales Associate

Today I saw a trans girl working at a department store and seeing her made an impression on me.  So much that I felt strongly […]

Posted on 2018.04.132024.04.29 by Franches
Posted in Experiences, FFS, Opinion, Surgery, ThoughtsTagged #ffs, #presentation, #trans

Avoiding FFS Family Feud

When I made arrangements to have my FFS in Spain I thought I would be creating conflict between my family members. Thankfully I was able […]

Posted on 2017.09.152024.04.29 by Franches
Posted in Decisions, Experiences, FFS, SurgeryTagged #apprehension, #aunt, #facialteam, #family, #ffs, #me, #mum, #myself, #personal, #surgery, #trans, #transition

4 Stages to Choose my FFS Procedures

Here I was at the end of March or the beginning of April 2016. I had met with a number of surgeons looking not only […]

Posted on 2017.08.242024.04.29 by Franches
Posted in Decisions, Experiences, FFS, SurgeryTagged #anticipation, #decision, #doubts, #experience, #facialteam, #ffs, #gender, #personal, #quote, #surgery, #trans, #transition7 Comments

Deciding Where to get FFS

After lining up consultations with a number of surgeons I was eager and nervous to meeting them. I wanted to know what procedures would benefit […]

Posted on 2017.07.242024.04.29 by Franches
Posted in Decisions, Experiences, FFS, First Times, SurgeryTagged #anticipation, #decision, #facialteam, #ffs, #gender, #Marbella, #presentation, #surgery, #trans, #transition5 Comments

My Decision on Getting FFS

When I made the decision to seek medical advice to start Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) I sort of knew that my decision included having some […]

Posted on 2017.07.232024.04.29 by Franches
Posted in Decisions, Experiences, FFS, SurgeryTagged #anticipation, #apprehension, #decision, #experience, #ffs, #planning, #presentation, #surgery, #trans, #transition5 Comments

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