General Transgender Discussion

Well, it has been 4-months now that I've been seeing my therapist, and during the 3thrd month, she addressed the situation to my attention, that financially I would never have enough to start my hormone therapy nor surgery to change myself from MTF. I thought that this would had been the last of us seeing each other, but my therapist arranged another appointment for me to come in to see her. I questioned myself about why should I bother to come in to see her anymore, since I'll never have the money to complete my transitioning? Now this is the twist to everything, she also insisted for me to make an appointment with another gender specialist, but she is more advance and d…

I've feel i want to Transition from male to female. i want to have a female body i also like female clothes, i also want to calm my high sexual urges from being male! i could find the hormone treatment easy for me but the surgery i want to have but i am scared. i also still want to be with girls. please any advice?

Hi everyone, I am new to this group and just wanted to say hi. I am trying to sort out my life as far as being a cd or a ts. It has been a long 55 years for me and i wonder if it was all wrong. At any rate I hope to learn a lot from this group. Thanks, Robyn

Being unemployed, I sought medical care this month from the Veterans Administration. My intake involved a standard physical, the doctor checked and wrote scripts for the meds I've run out of. It's surprised me that some of them have already arrived in the mail and have refills for a full year! I asked about GID medical treatment. Unfortunately they do not do HRT much less SRS. However, they will support me while I take HRT from a private doctor with blood work, etc. However, they are aware of the Transgendered American Veterans Association and gave their card. (website -- www.tavausa.org) Because I am a depressive, they also got me a walk-in with the social work…

For the past few weeks my close friend DJ, has been by my side since the moment I've gone public in my MTF transitioning. DJ has been staying at my apartment for a while, and recently I wanted her to hear my new transitioned voice sounding more feminine, but doing the past few days I'm beginning to notice a change in our friendship, DJ who was talkative to me, now she is quite which began to worry me. So I asked her did she feel uncomfortable with me walking around the apartment with long hair, wearing lipstick, and in women clothing? DJ replied back to me "not at all" but deep down inside I think she does, which is making feel a bit nervous? She tells me that she likes m…

I just got home from my 2nd Appointment, he said hes pretty much convinced that I'm TG(ie i didn't go running out of his office screaming when he told me the list of health problems going on hormones can bring) but I still have to see him for 3 - 6 months before he can legally send me to someone to get HRT

I have this complex about my height. Only because my parents see it as a way to discourage me from being the male I am inside. Everytime I talk to my mother, she comes up with you're too short to be a male, or what girl is gonna want a short guy like you. I find it rude and embarrassing. Anyone else have this problem? How do you deal with it?

As most of you know, I don't plan on ever transitioning--and I'm a lesbian. I spoke to an older lesbian recently; she suggested that I try to meet lesbians my age and told me that if she were my age, she could "almost" fall in love with me. (She knows I'm a girl and says she can really see it.) This surprised me, because I look unmistakeably male in my physical appearance. (It's mostly people who can't see me who think I'm a genetic woman.) I had read about women in men's bodies finding lesbian partners, but because of how I look, I thought I would be more likely to be my state's candidate for Miss America than to ever have a lesbian partner. Also, I recently me…

YAY! I got a phone call from my Therapist's rooms today telling me that they have a cancellation so I have my appointment at 4:15pm today :-D :-D

I don't know if you wanted to be reminded or not,but then again why not?Your living life for who you are. Happy Birthday Lori. Dee

I just found out that my current boyfriend of 2 1/2 years was dating a pr-op MTF trassexual befor me. He dated her for seven years and he did not recieve but he did preform oral. I am in no way judgmental towards transsexuals. I am feeling very confused about the possibility that he likes penis, something I will never be able to offer. He says he loves me and is not gay or even bisexual. I don't really understand how that's possible. I came across paperwork that showed his exes gender to be male; that's when I found out - and confronted him. I know that he loved this woman, and sex can be complicated. I just feel that I'm getting to old to stay with a man if he is just in…

Well, it wasn't supposed to happen, I'd been assured, but I've become unemployed. My wife and I are completely broke and I expect I'll soon be evicted with nowhere to go. Why wasn't it supposed to happen, you might ask? Because while these trumped-up charges have been building, another department's manager offered me a position with him should this happen. When he asked the VP why I was terminated, instead, the VP said the office was too small. Since there are 3 empty offices and 4 empty cubicles, not counting my now vacant cube, it's not for lack of a workspace. My "new" manager is going to investigate but thinks his employee, a young male described to me as intol…

Recently I had my first appointment with an endrocologist in Duluth, which my internal medicine Doc. set up. We discussed many aspects of my transition. Eventually he will send me to the Twin Cities for further tests and maybe my Orchi. He said I should try Climara because of the liver. I took the prescription to my local Walmart and got the shock of my when they told me the cost would be over $400.00 and the generic would be Over $300.00 !!! I didn't take the meds. I also told the Endro Dr. that I can get the meds at a considerable savings by going offshore; he also suggested the Sandrena sachetles. This also a transdermal method. Why the incredible cost for the Climara?

Hello, My name is Stevie, and I am looking for a doctor in Minnesota to begin the male to female transformation. I was wondering if any of you know a good physician to see for the first time. I would be grateful for any suggestions any of you may have in helping me with this. I didn't even know where to start until I ran across this site. So please help me to become the woman I believe I was born to be. Thank-you Stevie

Hi! Everybody, Though you see me comment from time to time and I haven't done much of that lately,I am here everyday seeing how everyone is doing..Although I have sent a few private messages. I figured I'd just let you know what's been going on with me.I'm still at the same place I've been since I joined this wonderful internet community.First I'd like to say I hope everyone who lives down south is safe and ok.You've been through alot down there lately. I have been in the same location to long now and plan to leave hopefully sometime before winter sets in.I have relied on the kindness of my folks long enough plus at my age I shouldn't be here in the first place anyway.…

Hi! Everyone, Over the weekend I decided to try my hand at blogging.My first entry is quite long.Their letters I wrote along time ago and sent over the web back when I first wrote them. I should have separated them into several entries but I didn't and I hope to get better at it as I go along. Dee

Hey everyone. I have a lot on my mind, so I decided to create a blog. Its located at http://nickystjournal.blogspot.com/ I hope everyone enjoys' it. ^_^

I usually just lurk, but I guess I'm posting this because I don't really have anywhere else to write it. Recently, my car got keyed with the message "TRANNYS SUCK". I'm 95% certain it was the doing of my younger brother (who, bless his little soul, is now in juvenile detention for other things he did that evening). Currently, I have painted hearts over it in acrylic paint (I don't have enough money to have it professionally fixed - he got both my doors on the driver's side). Because of it, I was pretty much forced to "come out" to the rest of my family (funny thing was, I never actually told my brother), which I wasn't really prepared to do. It just has me par…

hello im new to this thing i dont know exactly what im doing but i have some questions that maybe someone can help with, im 36 and since about the age of 5-6 i havent quite felt like i was me i know that is probly how most on here felt also but all my life has been spent doing what i was told that good boys do and are how good boys act but deep down inside i knew that im not what i look like im in here why cant i just show myself why did i get stuck in this body why cant i do the things i want to do am i so wrong for wanting to be me? am i not aloud to be me? why do i have to do these things that i have been told that is what im supposed to do? i dont know any more im so …

While I realize that for many here androgyny is nothing more than a necessary evil - an uncomfortable, inconvenient and awkward stage that one must simply endure as part of the process of transition. However, some of us actually identify as androgynes, third gender, non-gendered or twin spirit people (I personally identify as both androgyne and transwoman). At any rate, I happened across this site called Genderfork, which, according to the site admin, "...explores androgyny and gender variance through artistic photography." I understand that this is probably not everyone's cup of tea, but hopefully some will find it as interesting and enjoyable as I have. http://w…

Hi all, I am just curious, how did people come out to their parents. I am really worried about it because I am not sure how they will react. my dad especially comes from a very Conservative background.

well today I went to my Doctor and had a big talk to him about my feelings and how I am TG, and he said he was very happy for me that i've finally been able to tell him and he gave me a referal to a psychiatrist to go and see :-D :-D

Hello, I go by the name, Melody. I am 43yo, confused GID with a wife and 3 kids. When I was about 6 I wore my sister's dress, and loved it. At, 10 I would wear my mother's dresses. By 12, puberty began. I started to notice changes to my body which I did not understand. I thought that my penis was wearing away, and that my vagina would be exposed. I also thought I was growing breasts. I was both excited, and fearful with what everyone would think. I use to feel around for where my vagina was suppose to be. Throughout my teen years, I secretly crossdressed. Then, in my last year of HS, bought my own women's pants and shirt. I actually went to the ma…

All of this addoration men have for me on some of the dating sites is causing more problems than before.The experiences i have had from emails of my profiles on a few web sites is like i thought of myself as this sex goddess they seem to think i am.Hundreds of email admirers should be given to a celiberity not me.Why I see why sex goddess feel now and the image men protray them as. but you know i can barely meet any man face to face with a date to meet and see or feel the mystery of if we have chemistry or not. I am obessed with all their complements .but keep trying for a man even for short time and it is work. What advice could you give me? :(

this post is sorta like a "spin-off" borne of a reply to admin's post in transgender news & happenings about an iranian film - i didn't wanna run discussion about the film off track. from an article Change Sex or Die: ""In Iran," Atrian said, "sex-reassignment surgery has become a lucrative, assembly-line business."" i have made comments in the past that i felt some of the "big name" FTM surgeons in this country are living off their name, the "fame" they earned in the TS world for specific surgeries. in looking at surgery pix at one FTM site, there are little-known and virtually un-known surgeons in other parts of the world who's work is MUCH better, dare i say …