General Transgender Discussion

I can’t believe I actually did this. My wife and I decided to go to the mall tonight. Nothing out of the ordinary. It’s a relatively small mall. We had been there a couple hours, hit a few stores, and were at the last store we wanted to go to which as a jewelry store. I always like looking at their watches. I’m a Citizen snob. Anyway, we were in there and I reached up to scratch my jaw, and that’s when I noticed it. I hadn’t shaved for probably 3 days. I was instantly mortified. Adrianne hadn’t noticed, because typically, if I’m not going out on any given day, I’m too lazy to shave. So it’s nothing unusual for her. But when I realized it and asked her, she told me it was …

My mind tends to wander. A lot. One thought in particular went through the empty space this morning as I was on my way to the vet. For my rat, not me. If someone who matters to me was to ask, about sexual orientation, I have no idea how to honestly answer that question. I’m bisexual, but for the sake of argument let’s say I’m not. Seeing as I’m a woman, and have always been attracted to women, does that mean I’m a lesbian? Or does genetics rule this one and I’m still straight? The same goes for the men. If you guys are attracted to men does that mean you’re gay, or is genetics on top here too? Now flip it and ask the same question. On one hand the answer …

I came out 3 weeks ago as bigender.As a crossdresser,knew I had feelings I had desires to dress as female starting at the age of 20.Things went well,my twin sister read my mind knowing I was not just a crossdresser.She is supportive and doing great with the changes.Rest of my family,did take it well and been great with the changes.My wife Chloe,I was amazed she took it well and says she has a much happier husband now.I live and dress as female now living a better life.I am seeing a therapist and the sessions are going well.Now I sleep well knowing this is over and have support.

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 …

hi everybody. My name is Angela. I am looking for some assistance with coming out as Transgender to my adult children. They are 22 and 24 years old. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Ok, she's not a biological relative, but she's the friend I've talked about that has gone past friend and is now family. She has Lupus Nephritis, which is doing severe damage to her kidneys. In the event she needs a transplant I'm getting tested in the hopes that I'm a match so I can give her one of mine. What I'm asking from everyone here is to send good thoughts her way, and if you believe in a deity to please keep her in your prayers. All good thoughts and prayers can't hurt anything, and could possibly help. I'm not asking for anything more than that. Her name is Mary. Also to the staff, I couldn't figure out where this post belonged, so I just went w…

Okay so I am familiar with this and have done my homework on the subject, however since my breast started "budding" I haven't used a vacuum device. I was considering using it again the other day. But couldn't find any information on using this sort of device while breast are developing. From my understanding the two main benefits are it increases blood flow and engorges the tissue stretching it. Bolth of which should in principle only accelerate development. However since I couldn't find any information on the subject I thought it might be a good idea to ask the question. Does anyone here have any experience with this? Or any informed thoughts on the subject?

I may be the only one, but does anyone else have that rare occurrence where being misgendered isn’t really a big deal? I got rid of a TV earlier and the guy called me “sir”. I haven’t shaved today, and knew I wasn’t going to see him again, so I didn’t see a reason to get into it. I wasn’t particularly dressed one way or the other. He was here for all of 10 minutes so there wasn’t a reason to press the issue. Does anyone else ever have that rare occurrence where you really don’t care? Or am I missing something important?

It’s been a bit since I was on here. Of late my meds were ruined and I’m playing hell getting them filled again before the end of October. I’ve begun wearing a bra daily. I’ve heard it helps with shaping them. Not sure I can believe that but what the hell i do love wearing them. I hope my doc can help get my meds. It’s been horrible not having them. My addiction to becoming female is overwhelming and has brought me to tears because I can feel ["him"] trying to move back into me. Any advice from anyone on how to handle it would be nice. Love you girls. Cynthia

I was sitting here thinking just now. I got a text a couple weeks ago from someone that I cut out of my life several years ago. They asked if this was "Jared or Jennifer". How they found out my name since I changed it several years ago, I don't know. I'm not going to give my last name, but my first and middle were Jared Anderson. I always liked the names. But he is dead. And sitting here thinking about it, I realized that once in a rare while I kinda miss the names. Not often mind you. Heck, it never even pops in my mind much anymore. I don't miss anything else, just the names. Is that weird? Is it just me, or does anyone else feel the same way from time to time? If …

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Dear Friends, Am going on a fact-finding trip to Seattle, WA, on Friday, September 13th to Friday, September 20th. Thinking of moving there in the future. Would really appreciate what anyone has to say about Medicaid, and public housing as well as general information, such as public transit. Is anyone familiar with Seattle, especially how T/LGB - friendly it is? Will be staying in a hotel near SEATAC Airport. Please drop me a PM. Thank you very much. Yours truly, Monica

In another thread (or two...) we've talked about brain researchers looking for differences that would help indicate or perhaps objectively diagnose/confirm one's being transgender. This (below) is a little dated (July 1, 2016) but provides some information I found very interesting and informative: Why Are Some People Transgender?

My daughter is 17 and at beginning 2019 she told us she is transgender, she will start taking hormones by september but also I am looking a support group for her, we live in Wayne NJ, thank you so much.