more hormone news

Good: Ms. Zappy tells me that electrolysis costs are tax deductible as medical expenses! Considering how much electrolysis for MtFs typically costs, this is very good news.

Bad: Nibs' workouts, etc. eat most if not all of the Abbey's 7%-of-adjusted-gross limit for medical deductions, she says.

On a related note, Ms. Zappy was positively gleeful at the progress she was able to make yesterday. She chalked it up mainly to the amount of regrowth on my face, because it's easier to remove than virgin hairs. I would think, though, that that's been true for a few months now. Hormones? Maybe.

Question for those of you who've grown breasts: How did your volume progress as a function of time? Linear? Cosine? Inverse tangent? What?

more on zappy & taxes

A little birdie tells me that electrolysis is not deductible after all, even as a transition expense. A federal tax court in New York decided just last month that gender reassignment surgery is a deductible medical expense. I'm pretty sure this is what Ms. Zappy was talking about, but in the decision I found a footnote saying, "The deductibility of the expenses related to electrolysis is not at issue." Medical necessity may carry the day, but I'm not about to test it in court myself...

...Not least because medical expenses have to exceed 7% of adjusted gross income. 7% is not an upper limit. I heard wrong the first time.