General Transgender Discussion

Microsoft has called on me once more in regards to diversity and inclusion in the workplace for transgender people. I have roughly a week or so to write an article which will be presented on the Official Microsoft site. What I'm looking for are personal challenges/experiences that you personally went through good or bad. At this point I have my own information and a handful of locals but thought it prudent to get others from different countries/states.

A day does go by that I read of another transgender woman killed. Brazil has the most trans murders followed by Mexico then the United States. With the increased visibility and many ordinances for trans people becoming law, the vitriol and violence has been wratcheted up a few notches. The United States is one of the biggest exporters of anti-TGLB hate to places like Africa, Jamaica, and eastern Europe. Here is where we must be vigilant. Two projects of mine is to refute the lies that passing protections for transgender people will affect religious rights. The other is that I will demonstrate that transgender people were front and center at Stonewall and other movemen…

How to change your identity in France ?

In need to ask if I change my name and gender with SSA will that help me to get my health insurance approved for surgeries and surgeons will take me more serious? I legally Change name and gender last year with birth certificate and driver license. I need advice cause my psychiatrist said to wait and I ask my psychiatrist wait till I get breast augmentation surgery and Dr. said yes. When I started to do research on what is the right way to transitioning and everyone say it’s different with everyone. I wanted to hold on SSA to change name once I get one of my MTF transgender surgery.

Change can be a good thing … I have read a lot of posts by others describing why they can’t move forward and validating their decisions accordingly. It is hard to make changes in one’s life, seems the longer we wait the more compound our reasons for remaining static become. Now my point is not to push people or so much to say this is wrong … I took my time with making the changes necessary to begin transition. I have mentioned in other posts that I am a tattoo artist, my own tattoos have personal meaning and many are linked to transition and trying to accept myself (in the beginning). I have many Nautical Stars (a dozen in various places) as they are for guidance … to hel…

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…

I was planning on posting this question last night and noticed Christina 721 said what many of us thought and want. Question is to all M2f and F2M.If you could simply switch bodies with the oppisite sex and remain who you are would you without seeing the body you switch places with or remain just transitioning in the body your in. Dee

Readers - i moved the post below, made by shannon (and replies with it) to afford the topic it's own space. quite often readers have questions or concerns about how to go about getting the gender and/or name changed on their BCs, or whether their state will even allow it. in the thread it originally came from, "I Have the Feeling that I Lie" by Jesse K, questions cropped up about which box to check for gender on forms. this eventually led to discussion about correcting/changing birth certificates -michael -------------------------- "I have never had anyone say anything about it outright, but I have on occasion encountered some of these documents again, af…

This is what I did to get the gender designation mark changed on my driver licenses. First, I found this video in which the professor told the class to check the laws in the state that they lived in. Oh yes I have post this video in our forum under the (Male to Female (MtF) Crossdresser Discussion) look for the thread Transgender 102. I call up DMV here in California and found out to change the M to F all I need to do is get the form and have my doctor sign it. Then I got on line found the form printed it out called the doctor and ask if I may bring it over so she could sign it. I also attached a letter briefly explaining what this form was about. I have l…

OK, anyone following me on "Faceless Book has seen my struggles in changing my records well past the Easily obtained Court recorded name change I received in September from Chesterfield County Virginia . The FUN began when it was time to get my driver's license changed . I swear , Virginia operates under two sets of laws . They have one of course who recognize relatives of elected or past elected officials . Then they have the "OTHER SET " . Yeah this one is for people like myself who are KNOWN Rabble rousers and Hippies . This is where I come in . It's a KNOWN Fact I was a protester during the Viet Nam era in Washington DC and yes , I knew , not that I was friends , but…

Hello everyone, I realize this isn't a novel topic and plenty has been written about it from a number of perspectives. I thought it wouldn't hurt to add one more. Let me begin by saying that I'm a 43-year-old heterosexual male. I'm not dealing with any gender identity issues. I'm not secretly gay or bisexual. I am attracted to women and I am attracted to women who have a penis (although I'm not interested in having a penis inside me). I consider myself to be a normal, healthy person. I'm well educated, mannered, attractive and have had a number of serious, long-term relationships including a 15-year marriage and other meaningful relationships. I was inspire…

I thought it might be nice to share some TG childhood memories. When I was little, like about 6, I remember going to a wishing fountain well... thing, and wishing to be a girl. I also remember my cousin telling me a liked barbie dolls more than her, which was probably true, as whenever I went over to her house I wanted to play barbie... Does anyone else have anything to share?

This might be a touchy topic for some of us who dont yet have kids but thought about it. I never really thought about it til recently. First with my brother and his fiance having a baby. Then I went over my aunts husbands sisters place. There was this little girl. Her mother didnt want her, and being this little girl is beautiful, I couldnt understand why she would just drop her off and leave her. I started holding and playing with the little girl. As the time passed, and I had visited her abit more. I offered to help watch her while this lady was at work. I found myself getting emotionally attached to this little girl. Now when I go watch her, it hurts everytime …

in a thread begun by one of the ladies, "How important to you is being passable..." one of them commented about the rationality of transitioning or not based on whether one is passable or not, "...none of this is rational for me... it's an emotional, soulful thing, existing *beneath* and behind my rational thoughts." to that, chris42 replied, "I never chose to dress as female. I always chose male because something inside me made me do it. I just could not put on female clothes once I had a choice." god, do i know that feeling! i never liked the frilly stuff my mum put me in. later, i tried to dress accordingly when i thought it was necessary, but it always felt wro…

Hey everyone I don't know if you read my blog but if you haven't you should so you can get a feel about who I am as I sorta dont wanna spam it here But, anyways, I wanted to post something and I do not mean to offend any other person who is not Christian. It isn't my intent and I want to apologize beforehand if I do. Long story short, I have been a children's minister in a fundamentalist church pretty much since I graduated Bible College in 1999. I'm 35 and when I told my wife of 10 years that I was transgender, I am transgender I will always be transgender and that I felt like I have always been a girl in my soul, she pretty much took our children and left me …

I don't know if this is the right board for this or not, but I'm popping it here. We all know what cis means. Someone who identifies with the gender they were born as. But I'm curious as to where the term came from. Is it an acronym? Is it something that just popped out of someone's mouth one day and caught on? Is it an old word that I, for whatever reason, just can't find in the dictionary? This has been bugging me for a while. Is there someone that can enlighten me?

Happy Easter! So lately I've been depressed over getting older, and all that comes with that. Also discovered reddit and when I'm bored I check out different reddit subgroups. Well there is a subreddit called transpassing and folks post pics of themselves asking whether or not they are 'passable', and asking for honest opinions and tips. I thought it was a nice positive thing at first, then not so much. They also talk about exactly 'what' is preventing them from passing as ftm or mtf. Here's my problem...sooo many things considered 'unpassable' in the mtf pics...I also have. I mean I am basically NOT PASSABLE, which is even worse because I was born female. I have l…

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…

This article isn't specific to trans folk except that there is an interest in ultimately being able to have children as cisgender folk are able to do. This article has a number links to transplant information including a successful penis transplant. All of which, again, for cisgender patients, but it also speaks to a potential that could one day benefit trans folk. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/02/26/cleveland-clinic-announces-first-successful-uterus-transplant-in-the-u-s/

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?

I've got access to some very cheap clothes here, namely the Goodwill outlet store. $1 for a heavy piece is really not too bad, as a stress/anxiety reliever (it's sort of like the lottery -- fun to dig through the bins and grab stuff that might work out, imagine it one day working out...). I was buying some new socks and undies today (NOT at Goodwill ) and realized.. wow. I've got a lot of 'girl stuff' now. I wondered if I was anywhere near the quantity of old 'guy stuff'. I figured I must be getting close. So I started a tally. Let's just say the results surprised me a little. I left out specialized stuff like swim trunks and bike/hike clothes, and didn't include thin…

In the thread " (by Stephani), I read the following in Ellen's (tbirdgal) post to the thread, "...various laws in several states requiring the three pieces of clothing on you at time of arrest are still on the books..." I didn't want to de-rail the thread, so I thought I'd create a new one that might spark some discussion...because this inquiring mind wanted to know what this meant. I didn't want appear too stoopid, so I tried to google it first - what I found would dictate whether or not I created this thread . In a wikipedia article, I found the statement, "women were required to wear three pieces of feminine clothing, and would be arrested if found not wearing th…

Parker Marie Molloy | June 04 2014 3:32 PM ET "On Tuesday's episode of The Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert riffed on the recent ruling by the Department of Health and Human Services that paves the way for Medicare coverage of transition-related surgical care." --advocate.com The Colbert Report Takes on Trans Medicare Coverage(w/Video) ______________________________ Is Stephen Colbert using the trans community for cheap laughs, or mocking conservatives, and poking fun at the toll that life and nature take on both men and women?

This Stanford College lecture although difficult to keep up with is MOST enlightening and explains a lot about M2 F and Intersexed individuals ! https://youtu.be/Erexuu8PTo8

i told some people to day that i am tg