Give me old trans man Robby. Robby who transitioned in the 90s.
Robby who started going by Robby cause 1) it was masculine 2) it eased the name change and 3) he was already pressured to shorten Robinavitch might as well make it useful.
Robby who had shit transition healthcare (as was very common at the time) and is only alive cause he was in med school. Who, like a lot of people, ended up on unsafe forms of hormones cause they didn't know the safety at the time (like pills). Who nearly was chronically overdosed on T cause there were next to no docs who knew how to competently treat a trans patient. Robby who had to do so much endocrinology research to help himself and later the other trans people around him.
Robby who's push to being an ER doc was cause he had to help his trans community since no one wanted to treat them. Who saw how much he could help when he was on his ER rotation. Who saw how his friends were treated and decided to have all of them come to him instead no matter how busy he was.
Robby who had to work through the height of the AIDS crisis and watch as his community was failed by everyone around him. Robby who saw how the other doctors and nurses talked about and treated trans and especially trans HIV patients but had no standing to combat it at the time. Robby who ended up being requested by queer and HIV patients cause even if they didn't know he was queer they did know he was safe.
Robby who has been out so long he still idenfies as transexual. Robby with phaloplasty. Robby who got top surgery prior to chest masculinization really being an option. Robby with fucked up ribs cause chest binders didn't exist yet so your option was only unsafe binding.
Robby who is stealth at work cause he's so used to having to hide that part of himself for saftey. Robby who still has to hide that part of himself for saftey even now and hates that the world hasn't changed since the 90s.
Robby who sees Whitaker just starting his transition and makes sure he never has to deal with any of the bullshit he did. Robby also being with Trinity in lowkey (lovingly) flaming him for choosing to be named Dennis.
Just elder trans Robby.
