About Fast Track Femme

Essays on reinvention, identity, technology, transition and becoming.

Written by Stevie Bennett

Foreword

I’m Stevie Bennett: software architect, former quant trader, parent of three, and late-blooming transsexual woman.

Fast Track Femme is where I write about what happens when a life has to be rebuilt in public.

Some of that is about transition. Some of it is about divorce, ageing, money, bodies, surgery, desire, voice, work, technology, artificial intelligence, class, grief, humour, and the strange business of becoming yourself much later than planned.

I spent decades living as someone I wasn’t. Then, in middle age, everything changed quickly: my body, my marriage, my work, my public life, my sense of myself, and the story I thought I was living.

This is not a neat self-improvement newsletter. It is not a soft-focus journey of empowerment. It is a record of reinvention from the inside: funny, raw, sometimes uncomfortable, occasionally ridiculous, and usually over-analysed.

I write for people interested in identity, transformation, intelligence, technology, transition, midlife collapse, late-life courage, and the question of how much of a person can be rebuilt without losing the thread of who they always were.

What you’ll find here

• Essays on transition and womanhood

• Writing about divorce, dating, ageing and rebuilding

• Reflections on software, AI, money, markets and work

• Notes on beauty, surgery, voice, body and presentation

• Stories about class, ambition, grief, family and survival

• The occasional joke I probably should have deleted

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If you’re new, start with the essays that tell the story of how this all began, then follow the newer pieces as the life itself changes shape.

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