General Transgender Discussion

The conference call with Monica and Jennifer was very enlightening and entertaining ! Hey, with snow on the ground in so many places, a good may are stuck a home . Like I said, I am here to help and advise , if I am called upon . I'm also at Face Book as Ellen Shaver - tbirdgl

Hello Everyone, I have a question - I have seen a lot people talk about positive impacts of a participating in a local support group. On the other hand I seem to be running into some problems. What has your experience been in participating in your support group? The problems: I live in a very conservative area - I managed to find a support group, but wanted to ask some questions regarding how public the meeting place is and so forth - if you can change at the meeting etc. It seems when I ask to attend there is no issue getting invited, meeting times, and so forth, but when I ask specific questions, I get a lot of silence - no response. Am I violating some unwr…

Hullo all I'm still very new to these forums so if this is the wrong place to be posting this topic please let me know! I've been living my prefered gender for almost 2 years now. To be honest, when I started I thought I was never going to find anyone who would accept me for me as a partner, especially after my girlfriend at the time walked out on me a few weeks after I came out to her. It was about a year after coming out that I met the person who would become my first boyfriend. Well... That's a term I should use loosely because this person was otherwise identifying. Xe and I were together for about 7 months. I was really happy to have someone who knew and acc…

Hi All I blogged (https://daniellaargento.wordpress.com/) about a recent outing to the mall. I would like to know what you all think about what happened. https://daniellaargento.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/a-shopping-trip-spoiled-by-a-jerk/ I remain somewhat conflicted. Did I do the right thing? Should I have done something? Really not sure. Daniella

ok so is it wrong of me to be always cautious and suspicious of every male i encounter? i mean i know not all men are pigs and stuff but being that i used to be a male, i know what most of them think of and want, and tend to think with their you know whats. maybe its fear cause im afraid that being hit on by one will turn out to be too creepy for me...i dont know....lately ive been just wary of guys who want to chat with me especially on my virtual game i play.

Hi All First off, I hope I do not upset anyone with this post. Please note that I recognise the possibility of the content being upsetting to some but at the same time I am trying to better understand some issues that affect our community. I am writing this in a genuine attempt to deepen understanding and 'ventilate' issues we may face. I therefore apologise in advance and hope that you read this in the spirit and tone that it is intended. I am writing an article for Frock magazine (frockmagazine.com) on the connotations of the word 'tranny'. If you do not mind assisting in this survey, could you please reply to this thread by answering the following questions: 1.…

Just a reminder, that gender prejudices continue to do battle within the community at large. If we don’t want a world full of judgments, we must not judge. When Being Trans Is Not Trans Enough The terms transgender and trans are increasingly being used in community circles to denote those who are who are transitioning from their birth-assigned gender to more closely align their bodies with their authentic sense of self. Let us not forget that transgender is an umbrella that encompasses all persons whose authentic identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female genders and.... read the article online at Huffington Post

I posted something in a facebook group that got liked by the admin of that said group and i wanted to know if any else feels the way i do. below is what i wrote..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i just wanted to state my opinion on something that has been bothering me for the past few days and i really hope that no one takes offense to this nor think that im picking on anyone that might be in the fetish community. but felt i needed to get it off my chest. so here goes........ lately i have been seeing posts that are of a sissy or fetish type nature in groups like these and their starting to irk me alot. to …

If you've come out and had an open outright rejection and also had a closed rejection(meaning someone has a real issue with you but doesn't say it) Which one was worse. Or if you not come out as I have not. Which one do you fear more? For me I would much rather have the outright rejection. I think having someone who has an issues and not saying so is much worse, at least for me.

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i think my emotions might be getting the best of me today. got into an arguement over a video of a kid who got upset cause his parents pranked him with coal. i expressed that it was a mean prank to do on christmas and then i get mocked and made fun of because i genuinely believe that kids can get their feelings hurt being pranked like that on such a special day. i felt what the kid was feeling in the video because i have been through that mean joke myself. was i wrong to feel the way i did and side with the kid and his feelings? below is how the whole video went down... the kid runs into the living room and heads towards the stocking. his mother asked what did you get.…

i have an important question i wanted to ask you all and i need honest opinions on it. i have been for quite sometime pondered starting my own gofundme account to raise money for my SRS. the problem im running into is that social security wont allow me to recieve checks since im on SSI. i want to do this but im unsure if anyone would ever donate to it and such. my goal is to try to accomplish the srs within 2 years if i can.....4 years tops. one idea i came up with was have the check sent to the doctor who ive picked to do the SRS and that would get around the whole cashing the check part. do you all think i should take this chance and see what happens...or do you think …

I've appreciated the Forum thread "Questions From Spouses/Significant Others Of A Person Who Identifies As A Transgender Person Or Is A Transitioning Transsexual" and started thinking it might be interesting to gather a list of questions that we deal with. Maybe some are ones you already have answers for - great! I'd like to also know those. I probably just haven't thought of them yet. But more than just the questions, what are your thoughts and answers? I'd very much like to hear your perspectives. The questions below are in no particular order; I grouped them a little and hope that helps: On Being Transgender - Am I really transgender? The reason I ask myself t…

here is a letter i wrote to my self...my male self....hope you all like... Dear Danny, Thank you for the wonderful memories we have and also the bad memories in my life. You did your very best to try to stick around when i needed you but its time to say goodbye. I will miss you alot and i have pictures that will remind me of our time together. You will always be forever in my heart and I will never forget you. Love you very much and have a good life and never forget me. Sincerely, Charity!

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Hey Everyone, It's been a while since I posted as life has a tendency to get extremely busy at times and I guess at some point, post transition and post-op, life is simply normal. I choose to write today because in the last 6months my life has completely changed from what it once was and what I thought it was going to be. I'll start with a brief background ... I began therapy in 2008 and started my transition in 2009. With my then supportive wife whom I loved more then I ever thought possible, I entered into HRT and and began writing coming out letters to my family, friends and clients. It was extremely difficult as it is for all of us who move forward with transit…

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I hope that everyone here has somewhere to go or have people over during this holiday and the upcoming holidays as many of us know from others or first hand that these times can be dark and depressing. I will be spending time with my best friend’s family for Thanksgiving, which is an annual thing since 2007. If at all possible please make an attempt to be with people.

Hello all, I know that a lot of you probably don't know me. I had originally joined last summer, and was slowly coming out of my shell, but earlier this year I withdrew into myself again... I stopped visiting, and ended up staying away for many months. I finally started visiting again a couple of weeks ago, and have begun starting to come out of the shell again. It's not easy for me; even something as simple as commenting on a blog post or something takes a force of will. But I have been working at opening up. Now I am actually going to attempt to post something about myself. The last time I had been around, I believe I was working through how to come out to my…

so went to the doctor's appointment and good news....she is upping my dose some and i get to get more then a month supply...try 9 months worth...yay!! they took my bloodwork...soon as they comes back i can start doing my dose a bit higher...

When you go out you want something but it never happens? You like to crossdress and you like to go out and show off that assets, that you have but for some reason or another it doesn't happen you plan everything through, you visualize everything, you see through every action but yet when that final moment or whatever space you have in a big city with lots of people there's always some excuse or something hindrance or some trouble spot that just doesn't go your way for far too many variables n big tight city and ahead of you a brick wall? You come back home with some boners or two yet you crave for more? Being a man its easy to talk to man as a man but (being her and as…

Advocate.com October 30 2014 1:52 PM ET STUDY: Despite Discrimination, Trans Parents Are Raising Happy Kids Mitch Kellaway A new study finds that transgender parents and their children have positive, healthy relationships, even while they face external barriers.

Push the world aside and Just be Yourself. Tell us how one Feels.

so i just got my hormones and went back to HOPES and had them to give me the shot in my hip. i took my spirolactone before they gave me the shot. so i take spirolactone twice a day,one in morning one at night and my shot is monthly.

I remember one day when I was in third grade, sitting at a table with some of the girls in my class. I wasn't very sociable, so I was practically invisible during their conversation. They were talking about who had the longest hair and seeing who could cover the most of their faces with theirs. I wondered what having long hair was like. That's the first time I can remember wanting to be a girl. I never talked about it with anyone. I would fantasize about it late at night, wishing that when I finally fell asleep, I could be a girl in my dreams. That rarely happened, and when it did, I would wake up as soon as I realized it. I would be disappointed in the morning, but fo…