General Transgender Discussion

While out with a transgender friend accompanied a cisgender female, transgender admirer who I must say is gorgeous we started talking about being misgendered. My friend mentioned there were a few times she was misgendered which I would only think she would because of her body structure, something you really can hide if you have decent muscles or inherently masculine bone structure. I reminded my friend of me in regards to being misgendered and her cisgender friend spoke up and said, I could never imagine you being misgendered which is always good to hear. I think part of this is not only facial features and voice which are the two things that are giveaways (and eyebrows a…

Cyd Zeigler | June 06 2014 7:00 AM ET "It’s bad enough to see it splashed across my Facebook page and tossed casually around the pool on a warm Sunday afternoon, but the most disturbing part is that it’s gay men splashing it. As trans people have asked us with louder and louder voices to stop using this word, gay men everywhere are embracing it." --advocate.com Op-ed: What We’ve Failed to Remember With the T Word

I was reading posts on Reddit and came across this response: "So, the actual definition of biological sex is by the type of gametes you produce for your species, not by chromosomes. So there are at most 4 biological sexes: produce smaller gametes (male) produce larger gametes (female) produce both gametes (hermaphroditic) produce no gametes (nonsexual) This is the definition of sex across all sexual species, which is why there are things like "male seahorses give birth" (they have the smaller gametes; the larger gametes are injected into them by the female, who could be said to …

Saddly, I knew I wasn't being ALL Of the story on another site when I asked for some back ground on Phoenix Arizonia's H O P E house . I got a couple of very nasty e-mails when I first started digging about , now I know why !

From the Blog of Jillian Page, Montréal. “A friend was asking me about the difference between the words “transgender” and “transsexual".” Are they interchangeable terms?” - Jillian Page difference between the words “transgender” and “transsexual"

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.…

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I am a 32 year old cissexual female and have been with my trans (mtf) partner for several years. When I met her she had been on estrogen (patches) for nearly 4 years and was living as a woman full-time. After deciding we wanted to try and start a biological family together, she made the difficult decision to come off hormones in an attempt to regain her fertility. Appallingly, she hadn’t been offered any proper or feasible support with regards to banking sperm and the discussion was briskly over-looked by doctors, so coming off hormones was the only option. We are now doting, proud parents to a beautiful, healthy girl. Our daughter took a year and a half to conceive a…

Had my annual physical today, two years since HRT, 1 1/2 years since GRS, it appears as Marci Bowers indicated my prostate would be gone in a short time and it's completely gone as of today. Nice to know a doctor will not have to perform that test on me again.

A man has been jailed for life for murdering a transsexual prostitute in north London. Destiny Lauren was one of a number of transgender people to suffer violence, and there are concerns such attacks are on the increase. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10803570

Communication Modification Program for Transgender People to be Offered at Ithaca College Ithaca College ITHACA, NY — A new program at Ithaca College offering voice and communication modification instruction for transgender people from the college and the broader community will start in February. Beginning on Tuesday, Feb. 14, in the Sir Alexander Ewing ... “The program will focus on developing voice, articulation, language, nonverbal communication and self perception,” said Pitti, clinical assistant professor and clinical program director in the college’s Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. “It is open to both male-to-female and female-to-male tra…

Josh A. Goodman, 07/13/2012, 11:54 pm "A more common problem is simply not representing transgender data or issues under the umbrella of LGBT. News articles discuss LGBT bullying or LGBT suicide while citing data that only include LGB individuals, obscuring the fact that rates of assault and suicide are higher for transgender youth, and especially trans youth of color. Same-sex marriage is touted as an LGBT issue, despite the fact that many transgender individuals are heterosexual. Many commentators called the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" a major milestone for LGBT equality, but transgender individuals are still barred from serving openly in the U.S. military." -Go…

Hey everyone , YES EVERYBODY! That includes the crossdressers and admirers too. I'm on a "Planning Comittee " to do yet another Trans Day of Rememberance evening here , ( Richmond Virginia ) at the local Unitarian Church. I'm looking for ANY meaningful idea that's worked for you in T D O R in you're areas.If you were able to plan an event , what would you want to see?

Hi, I'm misty. I'm 44 years old and started hormones three months ago, low dose for the first two months, than ramped them up to an average dose for a month now. After about ten days on "low dose" my skin got soft and I started to smell sweet. After three weeks my legs got a little bigger,not much but look more girly like. I expected when I went on the "high dose" changes would happen, maybe I'm just impashent, haven't seen or felt any change, only a tiny bit more fat on my butt and legs. My breasts haven't grown any, haven't felt any tingling in them yet. How long did it take for you girls to start seeing breast growth?Did your breasts tingle? How long did it take for th…

Hi everyone. I have been very busy socially for the last few weeks seems non stop just thought you might like to see some photos I had done along with many other women like me for a calender we are putting together.was a great fun day and only cost £20 each that included proffesional make up artist. Just a few for you to see if you want to see the rest they are here Photos of the Calender shoot Hope you enjoy :)

i am in voice training, i am intersex which may be the problem but every so oftern my voice slips from male to female, i always get the omg coment but i never seem to hear what my female voice sounds like nor do i know i even do it, sometimes my voice goes like mini mouse and will stick for several hours and as much as i try it wont budge ,does any one know why and what can i do to keep my fem voice and stop the high pitch squeel thank you stefanie

Transgender advocates seek new diagnostic terms Boston.com Advocates have spent years lobbying the American Psychiatric Association to rewrite or even remove the categories typically used to diagnose transgender people, arguing that terms like Gender Identity Disorder and Transvestic Fetishism promote...

Apologies if I am in the totally wrong area or The topic exists already. (I'm new) Anyway, boobs; the kind that come out of a box. I trust you guys but not google searches. The question is simple. What would you recommend, Criteria? Realistic, adhesible for days and days and days.... (and how) but don't cost a small mortgage. Over to you fellow residents of the twilight zone......xx Thank you, Pollypagan

What it really means to go from man to woman NEWS.com.au As 65-year-old transsexual Josie Emery put it: "I'm not interested in being transgender, I'm interested in being a woman." This seems an obvious thing to those of us who will never know how it feels to be completely not at home in our bodies...

Hi Everyone. Most of you probably know that President Obama's health care bill is now partially in effect. Have any of you noticed your cost for hormones rising? Especially for those of us that insurance won't cover that cost? I just picked up my monthly prescription today. I have paid the same amount for 6 years, until now. The monthly increase....$20.00. So much for this bill helping the little guy.

hey all i wrote this letter on my mom's facebook status and wanted to show you my plead for my mom to call me by my proper pronoun and chosen name. Dear mom's friends, I am writing this status to introduce myself as her oldest daughter Charity. Yes I know you are about to be confused because she has a son named Danny and a daughter named Shelly, but I want to say something from my heart in hopes that all will know me as being me. I have been out as a transgender person since I was 21, struggling for many years to transition and fix my body to match my mind. It has been something that has always been a part of me even since I was 5 years old. It isn't something I woke …

So I'm out to friends and family, but I would like to come out to my professors at my university. Unfortunately it's a small private school, so many professors I had last year I will have again and again until I graduate. So naturally, last year they were introduced to me as a female and I have since started my transition. I would like to send out an email to all my professors to note them of the changes I have made, and to ask them to please refer to me with male pronouns and my chosen male name from now on. However, I feel that this is going to be a VERY awkward experience. I'm not afraid of discrimination, I'm just afraid to write the stupid email. lol So I just wan…

Trans activist Jude Patton has created two Facebook pages for those in the LGBT community who form emotional bonds with animals and he invites us to share our stories of our relationships with our animal companions. TRANS for Animals Lgbtiqq people and their emotional bonds with companion animals Mr. Patton describes the project as follows; Unfortunately, our experiences with marginalization often affect our feelings of self-worth. While many people in our lives are unable, or unwilling, to provide the emotional support we need before, during, and after coming out, or transitioning, our companion animals never fail to see us as we truly are, and never fail in contin…

Please note: This is long. and it rambles, and it likely draws the wrong conclusions. I'm sharing it with all you lovely people because I think clearer when I'm writing for an audience rather than just myself. My intention is to not invalidate anyone's experience, but to put my own into context. I love you all. - Dezzy I've mentioned in a couple of threads that I'm just coming to my identity. It's very confusing and I don't have the language I need to express myself cleanly. But that's what our community is for isn't it? To help people coming into this new knowing of themselves to express themselves and understand better. I came of age in the eig…

Anyone got any ideas for hair removal for Psoriosis sufferers like myself? I have it bad on my legs in particular which are also highly hairy. Its just that some waxes/removal creams are not suitable.