On Elliot's
Wikipedia talk page I found a dead link to
http://www.threerings.net/about. Elliot is listed as a "Parrt-Time Pirate" and his name links to
http://www.ctyalcove.org/~elizabeth. That website is a blog he wrote while at Caltech and Archive.org has saved it.
The website contains a LinkedIn Profile and a resume:
Note the name is "Zhen Elizabeth Fong-Jones".
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In addition to the resumes, it also contains
his diary (The archive is bugged and you have to go back in time to see the older posts).
Some interesting things from the diary:
Birth Certificate with changed name and gender (censored):
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The name on the "birth" certificate is "Zhen Elizabeth Fong", and he was born in 1987.
He was a proto-Lia Thomas:
Yesterday was the prelims for Interhouse swimming. I swam the 50 breaststroke and the 100 IM. I ended up at 4th in the IM going into finals, and 1st in the breaststroke. I’m a bit conflicted about having broken the Interhouse record for the women’s 50 breaststroke, as the IOC rules require that one be two years postop prior to being able to compete; I’m only 6 months postop, and have been on hormones for only 15 months. To be fair, I did take 3 years off from swimming, so it’s not as if I inherited or continued to build up muscle mass under the influence of testosterone. I really doubt it’ll be an issue for anyone at Tech, but it’s more of a conscience issue.
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The timeline from this post means he started hormones in September 2006 (at 19 years old) and had surgery with Dr Suporn Watanyusakul in Thailand around June 2007.
On Thursday, Blacker won Interhouse swimming for the first time in at least 5 years. The women’s 200 medley relay team won, and I won the 50 breast (although I didn’t beat the record I set on Tuesday). I’m feeling less bad about the record since Justine, whom I swam with in high school, was only 0.2 seconds behind me in prelims (equivalent barely half of a stroke). Both of us beat the record, and it so happened that I was just a split second faster. The margin of victory was about 25 points. Blacker dinner went wild when we announced that we’d won. As soon as the amount of time I spend on dilation goes down, I think I want to start training again so that in a year and a half when I become eligible to compete officially, I’ll be able to attend Senior+ meets in Pacific Swimming.
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He also talked a lot about dilation (not going to post all of them here, check out the blog yourself if you're curious):
Trans-related footnote: every 7-9 days now, ~30 min each with small and medium to ~4.75”, pain-free and no perceptible depth loss since 6 months ago even with more relaxed schedule. Nearing the two year mark!!! Thank you, Dr. Suporn! Trans angst is now pretty much barely a memory for me these days.
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With regard to my SRS, my 1-year anniversary passed last month without incident and I find myself in maintenance mode – dilating at minimum twice a week, but really having a good deal of latitude as to how early or late I do it. I’ve reintroduced the medium size to my regimen and haven’t been having problems – in fact, it makes dealing with the small after a few days’ gap a TON easier. I’m satisfied with my depth, happy with the cosmetic appearance, and happy ecstatic with the sensitivity. The entire ordeal of last year feels like a distant blur, and the awkwardness of my childhood seems like an dreary fog which has since burned off and been replaced with bright sunshine. Now that I’ve settled for the intermediate future, I’m finally getting a regular primary care physician and will be seeing her tomorrow to get everything checked out. Still no birth certificate – the California Office of Vital Records is facing budget cuts, so chances are that from the time of one’s SRS, it takes about 15+ months to get an updated birth certificate – 3 months for a court date, 2 months for the OVR to acknowledge receipt of the forms, and 10 months of processing time.
His parents didn't approve of the trooning out:
I’m also now 21 (yay!) – “R” and I put together a banquet at a local Chinese restaurant to celebrate and 14 of my friends came. I was disappointed, though, that my parents didn’t contact me on my birthday, and that they excluded me from a family gathering soon afterwards to celebrate July 4th. “R” and I ended up dropping by to say hi anyways, and having dessert with them. What followed was interesting – I finally got to see my parents and my childhood home again for the first time in nearly three years and was elated. Sadly, the feelings were not exactly mutual – my parents felt imposed upon and uncomfortable with me. I’m hoping these feelings pass over time. Afterwards, “R” and I went out to dinner at a local restaurant that was still open after all these years I’d been away and walked around Montclair a bit. It was quite romantic.
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His father is a lawyer who supports gay marriage:
Dilation is interfering with my life less and less – I’m down now to 2 or fewer hours once every 36 hours and have occasionally done every 48 hours without too much pain. I can finally make plans to stay out late and sleep in without worrying about my chores. I recently acquired a small plastic vibrator that’s about the same shape as the small dilator that I use but much shorter (so it’ll stay in without being held by hand in addition to its other advantages). I can actually be more productive during dilation time and am no longer confined to bed with useless hands.
I owe a hat tip to
my father for co-authoring
an amicus brief before the California Supreme Court in favor of gay marriage. Thank you, Papa. I love you.
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The "my father" link goes to a bio of his father, Kevin M. Fong, who at the time was a partner at Pillsbury Law in San Francisco.
