General Transgender Discussion

Happy Holidays! (or at least I hope they're somewhat decent considering your circumstances -- for those having a not so good holiday season this year) Again, visiting in-laws for the week so will be out of touch. My heart will be here however. MIWBJ

It is that time of year when depression can slide into life and wreak havoc especially for those who are in a dark place. My hopes are that those who have nobody to share the holidays properly with do find activities to keep them active and not alone as this is not good for mental health. For those who have someplace to go but not so welcome say if you were to attend in attire of the opposite gender consider dressing androgynous, might not feel the best but better than staying home alone. Anxiety and depression is huge in our community and if at all possible is best to get ahead of this before the holidays.

Hi Everyone, Has anyone bought or used a home laser hair removal device such as TRIA or Rio Scanning both sold on Ebay? I would like to hear your opinion about. thank you!

:D A page from my diary 12/13/2005 started medroxyprogesterone 01/13/2006 started spironolactone and estrodiol... Now i have been reading all the articles, read every message on this site, searched the web about HRT and yet I said to myself..here goes nothing, if it works terrific, if it doesn't..at least I feel good about my decision and process. Diary chest measurement 01/13 40 inches chest measurement 02/13 42 1/4 ....... WOW!!!!! Ladies, IT WORKS! Can't wait till 03/13 and 04/13 who knows even a few more inches and I'll be elated! So for all you just starting like me...you and I have a lot to look forward to. Womanhood..Here we come!

I wasn’t sure what board was the appropriate one so I put it here. I know staff will move it if it’s in the wrong place. I filled out the volunteer application at The Trevor Project earlier today. I’m hoping to become a chat counselor to help teens and children see that the grass is greener on the other side of the mountain we’re all forced to climb, and it’s worth reaching that summit to see. I’m curious about any advice I can soak up from members here. Anyone who has done this kind of thing in the past (or currently) I’m all ears. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee I will be accepted. But here’s hoping.

Just talked to my Mom today. In talking with her, i told her that she is always invited to come down. Told her it's been many years since she has seen me, so I have changed alot on the outside...and before i could complete my sentence...my Mom said, "but you are still the same on the inside." Nice!! My Mom is also 83 years old so she did'nt know if she could remember how to get to my place. But I have a cousin that visits her often. Told my Mom, find a time you and my cousin can come down. Told her,"You are welcome anytime." Writing this because I am finding my Mom was just waiting for the invitation. That she is had the time to deal with my transition and has j…

Hi all, here I am with another query. Reading many posts concerning tg people getting the hormone therapy that they desired, I read many times about the joy and peace felt after the hormones are taken. That the hormones in their blood made them feel whole again. Even a few ladies saying that it was euphoric. I am wondering if this is true for both mtf and ftm, and could it be that a non tg person would also feel something similar if they were introduced to estrogen or testosterone and were the opposite sex. If I took testosterone, for instance, might I feel energized, or powerful? And if a gm takes estrogen, would it make him mellow? Peaceful? Interesting to me. …

I’m so new to this forum , I’ve tried breast enhancing supplements online but have had no improvement just soreness?

HRT starting this week....Hope I don't have any issues.......will keep you posted... Love and hugs.....Pink.........Maybe I should change it to Caroline.......that is the name I will go with going forward...... Caroline.....the pink Koala

After a cursory search of the board, did not find anything addressing this issue -- if the women of one's family often get breast cancer, does that mean a mtf on hormones will also have a significantly greater chance of breast cancer as well? Is anyone aware of someone who transitioned and later developed (breast) cancer? MIWBJ

i am going to be taking hormones soon...but bc of fear and lack of courage i haven't told my elderly parents yet that i am trans. what do u think is better, coming out then starting hormones. or taking hormones and then come out as people notice changes

I'm not sure where to start so please bear with me. Since I can remember I have never been totally comfortable with being male. Most of the time I'm glad that I'm a man but yet I want to look somewhere in between a man and a woman. When I was younger I could pass fairly well and dressing up always made me feel stimulated and relaxed all at the same time. I'm 50 now, very young looking and I am married. My wife knows to some degree of what I am but she seems disinterested in it and perhaps threatened. She knows that I'm not gay. However, she has never been supportive of what I think is a need. This is going to get convoluted so I will try to have it make sense. …

Ok, so I have this really shi**y part time job until graduate school starts in July. I was in the break room yesterday, and they were bashing the gays and lesbians that works for us. They were talking about how many of them are homophobes and how they would literally drop everything and run away because they don't "want to get raped." I was so horrified over it. It was like 15 minutes of hell. I heard it from my own family the last thing i need to hear it from is my job. I looked on the internet and saw the company i work part time for is rated as the least friendly towards the GLBT community. Thank God i am only there for 4 more months.

PLEASE SHARE YOUR TRANSGENDER HORROR STORIES Here is mine... Reading several posts on the message board got me thinking about one of my own horror stories of the past. I should preface this by saying almost all of my experiences have been either positive or neutral, but this one was incredibly destructive for me. In the 1970's, when I was in my early teens, I struggled with my gender identity. This was pre-Internet and polite families simply didn't discuss transsexualism. Religious families such as my own had no tolerance whatsoever. I didn't know I was transsexual. I had never heard the term and I frankly didn't know there was anyone else in the world who wante…

Jessica and I have corresponded here now for some time . She had taken one of our members here by the hand and gave her a NEEDED trip to the keystone transgender conference and i am sooo glad she did . Seems Monica's life improved a lot as a result . Jessica herself is somewhat new to a transition and I'm glad I could be on hand to show her a few tips . Meanwhile , Jessica was on her way Southbound to begin her new Journey and I invited her into my current home of Richmond Virginia . I'm always THRILLED when I can meet one of you and I love being able to put a face to a name ! Here we are having dinner at the New York Deli next door to the historic Byrd Theater here …

As I watched TransGeneration I was interested in the contrast between Gabbie's openness about being transgendered and Raci's hesitation to acknowledge being transgendered. I believe every person has to find their own comfort level and use what works best for them. As for me; When I went full-time I chose to make a clean break from my former self. I quit my job (making a great income) and did a complete transition. When I reappeared about 2 months later I was passing pretty much flawlessly. I took a job making a fraction of my former salary, but I was living on my terms. I completed HRT and SRS while working 2 jobs. Fortunately, I was able to regain the lost income and…

Interesting research found in the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/opinion/sunday/richard-a-friedman-how-changeable-is-gender.html?ref=opinion&_r=0 Obtained the article via WPATH Standard of Care on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WPATH/?fref=nf

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…

I hope you understand, this is a very real question for me. For example, today I was thinking about telling my son that I am transgender. He's 30, and I imagjne him saying, "Okay, what's that mean?" To which I'd say something about my always feeling not entirely "with it" in the masculine role, envying girls and women, wishing I'd been born one, etc. I don't think he'd get it. Or last week, my wife and I had a meeting with my therapist. She asked me, "What do you feel, that you know you're transgender?" I told her that is a hard question to answer. If I say I feel like a woman "inside," what does that really mean? I said that I feel I'm more emotional, sensitive, and e…

how do you know you are trans? is it like... something you knew since you were five? or did it - smack - just hit you one day? or more like a slow realization?

For example: Also: Off course he takes things too literally. Like so what about age? And how does he define sex? As for expression: & Off course the problem here is that he is looking at expression alone: Off course I wish to debunk his claim of sex being formed around what gametes are produced. Any ideas?

As people who are often considered WAY OUTSIDE normal society (whatever normal is), a lot of us find ourselves rejected by the places of worship in which we grew up. I personally was kicked out of 3 different churches. And yet, as spiritual beings having a human experience, we have an inherent need to connect with others, as well as our concept of a Higher Power, at a deeply spiritual level. Cut off from our original source, we have to find new ways to feed our souls. Personally, I have managed to become a part of new communities where I can get real, share, listen, laugh, cry and ultimately grow. Some of these spiritual circles focus on a particular spiritual path, ot…

It's a curious thing this state called Life. We undergo a great many things in it, some good, some bad, and some a little of both, but never in my years has it ever been easy, never has it been handed over just because I was told "oh you deserve it", do I what did I ever do to deserve something I never worked for. I was born by the skin of my teeth, I was never meant to make it full term because of blood compatibility with my mother, but hay I showed death up I was born, then at age two due to allergic reactions to dairy I almost. Died again, almost drown at age six, attempted suicide more times then I care to admit, born into a life of poverty few know I…

How far have you gone with presenting how you feel and what is the most that you think you are willing to do to bend your gender. I use to be afraid to wear women's underwear under my clothes, now this is where I am at. wear nylons or womens panties all of the time. have shaved all of my body hair including my arms and armpits for years. now have a feminine hairstyle and longer hair. Recently pierced my ears. wear womens slacks and stretch jeans Wear womens shoes that could almost be masculine, but they have more height than a man's shoe Sometimes I wear light base make-up Sometimes I wear a bra I often shop in the womens section "as Is" and push myself to …

How Gay-Friendly is Hong Kong? It Depends. Wall Street Journal (blog) Hong Kong's LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community may have received a boost from local pop star Anthony Wong's very public coming-out last month, and there may have been visible improvements in public attitude in recent years...