72 personal blogs added here so far in two weeks, most of them trans-related, all of them GLBT-related.
Wow, that's a lot of reading. I enjoy reading when I can, whether it's on my MacbookPro (it's true, once you go Mac, you never go back), or if it's using the Google Reader app on my Crackberry. There are a lot of great minds out there. Hope you like reading too.
Please feel free to contribute to their sites by commenting when you have something positive to say. I'm sure it's appreciated. Oh, and while you're at it, be sure to check out our own personal blogs: http://lorisrevival.blogspot.com and http://srknipe.blogspot.com. Go'on, git reading!
The People - Personal Thoughts
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To all my USA readers: - Have a safe, healthy and happy Independence Day! Wear a mask when you go out! And remember the old adage: If you want to be alive on the 6th, don’t drink a...1 hour ago
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Happy Independence Day! - [image: Source: Venus] Wearing Venus Bothwell Browne femulating in the 1919 film *Yankee Doodle in Berlin*. You can view the film on YouTube.6 hours ago
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Right off the high board into the deep end - I thought I was dipping my toes into the shallow end of the pool, but somehow I had managed to make it to the highest diving board and before I knew it, I’...8 hours ago
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GENEVIEVE'S GEMS - *In solitude, we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to ...9 hours ago
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‘Pride Month 2020 – How Did We Do?’ - * ‘Pride Month 2020 – How Did We Do?’ (3 Jul 2020) * (Draft) * The US Supreme Court ruled in favour of Trans and LGBT employment rights. I say that every e...10 hours ago
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Amy Dyess - “We were constantly triggered. Now I realize we were used as pawns in a culture war. It was never about defending and strengthening lesbians. The goal was ...11 hours ago
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Brief Moments - Hi folks, Two quick shout outs today. Firstly, congratulations to Lucy on reaching their thirteenth blogging anniversary. Well done indeed! 👍 Also a nod o...16 hours ago
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Do Me A Solid?? - Please visit my new site: https://julielevinson.wordpress.com/2020/07/03/quick-update/ And, if you are so inclined, subscribe? You can read the update over...16 hours ago
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Again We Are In Trump’s Crosshairs - This time in homeless shelters. Last month he took away our healthcare coverage now he wants up thrown out of homeless shelters. Have you ever known of a m...19 hours ago
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Is it Friday already? - Lockdown here in England officially ends tomorrow, not that I see my life changing radically. I won't be rushing to the pub to get tanked up, but we will b...19 hours ago
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A Decade Ago - I am not one to remember dates well. For some reason, I remembered this one. In 2010, on the Fourth of July weekend, I officially closed what was left of...21 hours ago
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Balance - I think I have learned more about myself in the last ten years than the rest of my life. I learned how to balance my gender identities. I couldn’t let the ...23 hours ago
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Lockdown - Because of the global pandemic caused by COVID-19 many parts of the world have been in lockdown, restrictions have been placed on where we can go, what w...1 day ago
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Processing Kandi - I was once asked what the process is for me to look as I do. So let’s revisit that topic for those new to all of this. Many of us revel in many parts of ou...1 day ago
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Whinge with mother - Mick Jagger and his merry men called them ‘Mothers little helpers’. Sadly, I am not a mother. Antidepressants I’m referring to. I have been popping these f...1 day ago
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Trans is More than Transition - I know that I’ve spent the last 4 years here writing mostly about my transition. And lately I’ve been very focused on surgery. But I want to take a moment ...1 day ago
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How do you handle the attention? - That was a question I was asked recently while in conversation about living outside the box I had not considered this question consciously before, so I to...1 day ago
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Origins : The Assigned Male Digital Anthology, 2014-2017 - Origins : The Assigned Male Digital Anthology, 2014-2017: As Assigned Male Comics is celebrating 6 years of existence (happy birthday AMC!🎊🎉), I decided...1 day ago
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The “How do I die?” dilemma – no, I’m not thinking of THAT! - After the somewhat emotionally traumatic week I’ve had it’s been so helpful to have received a lot of reassurance and support from my readers and fellow bl...1 day ago
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13 Years - Oh hello you good looking people, hope you've had a great pride month even without your regular safe spaces. This blog has been going for 13 years, see...1 day ago
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Personal Updates - I tried CBD oil for the first time, Wednesday night. I have been doing much better with panic and have had few attacks in the last several months. Part of ...1 day ago
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Stayin' Alive - We'll remember this year, distinctly, as a time when our primary focus was "stayin' alive." Which led me to re-consider the lyrics of that classic song: ...1 day ago
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Coronavirus Pandemic Update 91: Remdesivir Pricing & Disparities in Drug... - TLDR : Remdesovir available only in the US for $3300+ per course, and China is using its military as human guinea pigs for a new vaccine developed in c...1 day ago
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First steps in trans living 3: getting out the front door - A great deal of trans life takes place in clubs and dedicated venues. You turn up there or to a nearby hotel, you put on your dress and makeup and then enj...2 days ago
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Scary Creepy Conkwell Woods - Heading south from Bath on the Kennet and Avon Canal, you pass down the narrowing wooded valley of the Avon towards Bradford on Avon; and crossing the Du...2 days ago
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Rainbow Reading: July 1 - Bite-sized reviews of the LGBTQ books I’ve read in the past week. All titles are linked to their Goodreads page. Between June 24th and 30th, I read: A Mino...2 days ago
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Life gets even crazier - Most people who know me are aware that I am an avid Marxist. No, not in the economic sense, but in the comedic sense. Of the brothers, I would have lov...3 days ago
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Not Enough Raindrops - Yup. Another song. Been stuck in my head for about a week. There's a couple of reasons for that. A few, maybe. First, I recently watched Butch Cassidy and...3 days ago
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I am Now Female - I am now a female. Well, according to the state of Maryland’s Motor Vehicle Administration. Yesterday (6/29/20) I had my gender marker changed on my state ...3 days ago
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How it is going - Been a few weeks since I last posted as I have been busy. That is normally how it works when you suddenly have all the free time all the things you had bee...3 days ago
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Last Sunday of June as Susan - It is Sunday morning and I got up at 8 and had breakfast before starting to get ready for the day. I took my shower and was just getting ready to start my ...5 days ago
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Pride 2020 - It's Pride today. This year's Pride is really different for me in a lot of ways... It's been a strange year, to be really honest. It's hard to not discu...5 days ago
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2 Year Anniversary - I suppose that today is the day that best marks the start to my true transition. Sure there are other dates, like July 3rd, 2017, that is the day that I ac...5 days ago
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The Third Anniversary - Today is the third anniversary of Barbara's death. I took this picture of her at the first TG party we held at her house in Folkestone. Nine months la...5 days ago
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Walk A Mile In Her Maternity Panties - A while back, I had a conversation with a friend who at the time was about 7 months pregnant. We talked about the usual point - how "men just don't under...6 days ago
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A tiny bit of an update… - I try to write at least once a week but just haven’t been up to it lately, this along with everything else. I figured I’d pop in for a quick update. I’m st...1 week ago
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177 Days Later - it has been 177 days since my last blog post. It’s odd looking at this blog now, at the person I was 6 months ago as compared to the person I understand my...1 week ago
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Lockdown blues - *Remember the days before 'social distancing'?* 2019 was a funny old year. For much of that year I lost the ability to map the female onto my irredeemably...1 week ago
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Lifeboats - I spent my youngest days (up to 1963, when I was eleven) growing up in Barry in south Wales, attending junior school on Barry Island. Mum's friend Betty li...1 week ago
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What “Gender Dysphoria” Means PART 1 - Recent years have seen the advent of the term “Gender Dysphoria”, a somewhat loose term thrown about to justify much of the activists activities. But just ...1 week ago
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Trans in Quarantine - It’s no secret that COVID-19 has changed everyone’s lives. What seems normal is being challenged on a regular basis. No more hugging other people. No mo...1 week ago
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Champion of Pride 2020 - This came as something of a surprise: me in a list of “champions of pride” in The Advocate. Every year they name 104 activists, 2 from every state, and thi...1 week ago
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Discrimination Against Justice Sector no better than Racism - June 20, 2020 Letter to the editor: Discrimination Against Justice Sector no better than Racism Dear readers, Yes folks, racism is wrong.. But so is any...1 week ago
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A Correction - My recent blog may have given some wrong impressions. Sometimes I don’t choose the write words. I want to apologize to Cindy for any negative impression pe...2 weeks ago
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Happiness is... - Shiny, light pink nails, fresh from a visit to the nail salon! Finally things opened up enough around here, to be able to allow having my nails done . Wh...2 weeks ago
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The Nasty Party earns its nickname - If you've followed British current affairs of late you'll probably be aware that our Government is probably not experiencing its finest hour. The Briti...2 weeks ago
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The Out Alliance Saved My Life - Around this time, 20 years ago, I was experiencing suicidal ideation and debilitating depression, after being hospitalized for mania and psychosis. The #1...2 weeks ago
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2020 - Back in 2016 I felt that I'd reached the point with this blog where I had nothing more to say and that it was time to move on. I'd completed my journey thr...2 weeks ago
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Transgender Healthcare Protections Eliminated- commentary by Charlotte Clymer - Trump has stripped health care protections from transgender Americans. I've expected this since the election, and wonder what took them so long. I have s...2 weeks ago
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In The Line Of Fire - 1993 - This is one of my favorite movies. Hat tip to my girl Angie for it coming up in conversation yesterday, making me desire to see it again. I watched it thi...3 weeks ago
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Diary of a Locked-Down T-Girl 8: Thoughts on Penises - Yeah yeah, I know… I said I would be writing more now that we are in lockdown and the next thing you know, it has been six weeks since my last post. Sorry,...3 weeks ago
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Voting and feet. - I've been wearing my sandals (the heel is a couple inches high, rubber soles) to the office for about three weeks. I had to wear them because a month ago ...3 weeks ago
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Why? Part of Bring him to justice - I have never responded well to demands, especially demands from strangers, and the older I get, the more obstinate in my refusal to act I become. Demands t...3 weeks ago
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bleuch - I spent 45 minutes this morning as soon as I woke up looking through a shops website because they have a summer sale on – 21 pages of underwear and sleep w...4 weeks ago
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Black Lives Matter - I want to express my unconditional solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters in the US, UK, and beyond. Over the last week I have watched the unfolding...4 weeks ago
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a year's worth of julia news! - the latest excerpt from my novel 99 Erics!Last week, I published my first full email update in about a year! You can *read the whole update here*. It cove...4 weeks ago
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Burlesque Showreel, Act 4 - A reworked version of my third burlesque solo, with earlier mask removal (as this routine is hard enough without sod all peripheral vision and compromised ...4 weeks ago
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Lockdown. - So how's it been for you? Me, my life has hardly changed at all. Before lockdown I sat at home at the computer all day. During lockdown I've sat at home at...4 weeks ago
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Ground Floor: Perfumery, Stationery & Leather Goods, Wigs & Haberdashery, Kitchenware & Food. Going Up. - When you live in the top floor flat (apartment for USA folk) of your building, you get used to a certain amount of privacy and your life is largely protect...4 weeks ago
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A Gap For A Friend - I sat at the breakfast table at his parents house. It must have been over ten years ago. It was a sort of farm house, you know, with low solid dark wooden ...4 weeks ago
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Ask A Crossdresser: Names - A friend of mine recently asked me “So how did you pick out the name Liz Summers?” upon which I searched back for the blog post where I explained it. Wel...4 weeks ago
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The Autogynephilia Theory Debunked by New German Study - [image: transgender asian woman with asian woman] *The autogynephilia theory of Ray Blanchard has been part of the transgender discussion since the late 19...1 month ago
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Guesting on the Angstcast podcast! - In May 2017 I went to record a session for my friend Steve’s project “The Angstcast Podcast”, talking about a variety of subjects such as public displays o...1 month ago
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My Office Today - I did a thing! - In this strange world we now find ourselves in I am definitely one of the lucky ones ~ I get to go out to work every day, spend time outdoors in people's g...1 month ago
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What’s in a Name? - I’ve added a phrase to the main title of my blog. Veronica Vera–Now & Then describes the schedule and the content of my posts. So far, I’ve published infre...1 month ago
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What did I put my wife through? Tales of the Pink Fog. - You know, I don’t think I have ever apologized to my wife for all the hell I put her through when I would get into “Pink Fog’s” years ago. For anybody won...1 month ago
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Posting from the front - Now that my dad has passed, things have started to settle down to a new normal. My brother and I have been talking more often, and XGFJ no longer posts ...1 month ago
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Short Story: Miracle - It felt as though my heart was being squeezed by a vise. Or maybe it felt as though it was been forced through a shredder. It was a pain I’ve felt before, ...2 months ago
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Brick Wall - I have not posted in a while. There is nothing exactly new in my gender journey as the shelter at home orders have taken my Tanya time down to zero. I'm ...2 months ago
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What's Making Me Happy This Week - 1. Streaming services - in a time like this, it is nice not to have to depend on a place like Blockbusters or regular TV only. Maybe it's not ...2 months ago
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Hubble's 30th Birthday: A Personal Memory from Ms. FHST - Has it really been 30 years? I can think of nothing better than to reprint below my 25th anniversary reminiscence published in my companion journal *Alice ...2 months ago
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On the limits of expertise - “Listen to the experts” sounds like good advice, but it doesn’t cover as many situations as you might like. The command itself requires prior knowledge. Wh...2 months ago
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It’s Still OK to Make Eye Contact During a Pandemic (video) - An update and message of love from yours truly It’s a time that has most of us practicing physical distancing to prevent the spread of a microscopic and da...2 months ago
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Socially Distant - We're 6 weeks into all the "social distancing" that is meant to flatten the curve and blunt the spread of Coronavirus. Each of us is finding our own way t...2 months ago
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Make it so . . . - Ok, I know that you all sit with baited breath waiting for me to review TV shows and movies, so here are my latest opinions. Being a life long Star Trek ...2 months ago
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Labour "Centrism" has eaten itself. - The leak of data showing the horrific scale of the centrist campaign to re-elect the Tories in the 2017 election needs to be published in full, if it is no...2 months ago
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It's Been A Long Time - Hello. It's been a long time hasn't it. I thought I'd check in and let anyone interested know that I'm still here, still alive, and give an update on what...2 months ago
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Ongoing Struggles - This is going to be a little crazy and may put some people off so fair warning. Been really struggling with a lot of stuff lately. My sexuality, I know I a...3 months ago
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Twist gets baked: coronavirus lockdown video - So in the boredom of the coronavirus lockdown, everyone’s getting a little frustrated. To take your mind off things I made my first ever baking video. Enjo...3 months ago
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Musings: Lost Together - Hello all - hope this finds you and yours safe and well. In these difficult, challenging days, staying connected and maintaining perspective are more impor...3 months ago
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Transient life, transient humans - We are transient – traveling from one state to another, and sometimes combination of different states at once. Hello once again. Sharing this blog with som...3 months ago
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To be known… - The other day, while driving home from church on a Sunday afternoon, we went past a bar and someone was crossing the street in a nice dress and heels. I t...3 months ago
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Like a dick pic that runs out of the room - How’s that for click bait (or aversion therapy)? Read on, or not. I understand. Obvious CW apply. My mate and I were sharing sexual awakening stories, as y...3 months ago
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I’m going to a ladies-only swimming session! - I’ve just had a message from an old lady friend, and she’s invited me to a ladies-only swimming session. Squeeeee! Let’s call this lady Jan. She’s a crac...3 months ago
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Sample School Dress Codes - After reading CJ’s last post, a lot of you requested to see the dress code CJ worked on with his school and district. It follows. I also included some samp...3 months ago
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Review: Anna Secret Poet-No Brainer - The Tempohouse Anna Album Review Thank you so much to Lorna Irvine of The Tempohouse for this lovely review of my forthcoming album! You can also check out...4 months ago
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My Personal Views on Trans Rights Issues - So, it’s been a while since I last posted here. Rather than give a full update on my life, the purpose of this post is to express my views on various trans...4 months ago
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Updates… - Soooooo I’ve been neglecting my ‘online presence’ for quite a while now… I do apologise for that! It has been a complex sequence of months with little spar...4 months ago
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A sassy Valentine and my love for Mister Rogers. - No glitter, plastic gems or sparkly rhinestones decorated the valentine I gave my kid Harry this year. I’m usually drawn to cards with the same items Har...4 months ago
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Everything is Fine Here ... - I am posting one final time to say goodbye properly, and, as well, to clear up a mess caused by deleting an uncharacteristically hasty and messy post. Yes,...4 months ago
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Cis allies versus transphobes – when and how to engage - This blog came out of a conversation with an ally about when and how to engage with anti-trans campaigners. Here are my top tips for how cis allies can be ...4 months ago
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Rolled up - I come to you, not with baggage but a rolled-up carpet, a rug of dust, footprints and wear. Sometimes it unrolls – something pulls it back under my feet. I...4 months ago
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CATCH UP BLOG #2: Assertion of one’s authority - It’s another catch up blog. I don’t think I’ve gone so long without posting, but as said last time around, three were written – it was just that posting th...4 months ago
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Transitions: From My Heart to Yours - On this day, seven years ago my world changed. I learned a new word; transgender became part of my vocabulary. Along with that I learned about the differen...4 months ago
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Burn Out and Checking Out Are Also Parts of Transition - So, I am about to turn 40. Not only is that a major milestone, it also means that my official transition started five years ago. And, back in 2015 when I...5 months ago
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New Year, Same Stef? - I know it’s a bit belated, but Happy New Year! It’s finally 2020 and all I can say is where the hell did all the time go? Didn’t Y2K just happen? When did ...5 months ago
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I miss this. - New year. New decade. So much has changed since I transitioned. And so much has stayed the same. To be honest, there’s a whole hell of a lot from t...5 months ago
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2020 – The year of taking chances - 20-20!! sounds very futuristic!! People thought that by 2020 there will be flying cars, and robots ruling over us, dystopias, etc. but here we are, just an...6 months ago
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Happy New Year - Happy New Year everybody, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and got lots of lovely things. Now that things have finally returned to normal in our house...6 months ago
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Still alive. - Another decade! With the high murder and suicide rates folk like us have I never imagined that I would reach the end of my twenties let alone still be arou...6 months ago
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Sideways career - Right... Second attempt at this post 😀 This is a bit of a long story, but rather than keep everything cryptic, and saying it at the end I'm going to do it...6 months ago
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Last blog of 2019 no - Merry Christmas& Happy New Year all! So much for me intending to post every month-to be honest,not much has changed. Still haven’t heard back from Insura...6 months ago
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Holding on - Is she going to die? I ask the firefighter. It’s been 20 minutes since I’ve dialed 911, my wife is lying collapsed on the living room floor of our rur...6 months ago
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Music – Busy Bee - One of this year’s xmas gifts to my family was a small MIDI controller and I spent Christmas downloading software and sounds so it’d be all ready to go whe...6 months ago
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The Medical Profession is Female - A man and his son are terribly injured in an accident. They are taken to hospital requiring surgery. A surgeon is called, but looks at the boy and says "I ...6 months ago
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Time to Upgrade - November 5th, 2010 - I began this blog. When I started out, I did what many bloggers do, I headed to Blogger.com. It is a nice friendly platform "back e...6 months ago
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Advocacy for men presenting as men in dresses - This is terrific. Of course the mainstream public will write it off as sensationalism and not take it seriously, but I’m glad of any positive commentary on...6 months ago
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Inside Out - Surface elements that reveal the core Abide a moment, Dear Reader, while I reacquaint my fingers with the keyboard. They (my fingers) are stumbling about ...6 months ago
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Let’s talk about emotional health. For the last few years, I’ve felt a sort of emotional... - Let’s talk about emotional health. For the last few years, I’ve felt a sort of emotional numbness. I assumed that being on testosterone had simply change...7 months ago
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Bno - My suit case for the weekend was so big it was the only thing that would fit in the boot. Mrs Sox's rather small case had to go on the back seat. For weeke...7 months ago
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I Miss 2012 - I was 16, it was the last year of high school. My school had two different buildings in different parts of the city, the first had from kindergarten to the...7 months ago
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The Summons - I was summoned to the Managers office this week .. and asked to shut the door . .. Gulp! My mind was in turmoil as to what I had done wrong, was I bei...8 months ago
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Transferring to a new Blog - Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am forced to close down this blog and open up a new one. Please visit my new blog, "Dotting I's and Crossing T...8 months ago
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Standing Up, Speaking Up, Moving Up - It’s almost a year since I posted anything on this blog. Just a case of real life taking over I suppose. During all the years when I was desperately hopi...8 months ago
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Working on a New Book - Hi everyone! Excited to announce I am 21k words into writing my first novel! It’s an adult vampire-lesbian action sci-fi thriller. Vampires! Lesbians! Tran...9 months ago
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September 2019 - New Mk 3 Blog commenced. - I have not updated this blog for a while for many reasons but I have now decided to commence Mark Three Blog of K.D.s life were you will now find it here -...9 months ago
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‘Modern Love’ essay: the gift that keeps giving - The essay that keeps giving returns to the spotlight, in a manner of speaking. Modern Love editor Daniel Jones has revised his compilation of essays to coi...9 months ago
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Lucy's thoughts - one year on - Recently it was the 1 year anniversary of the Sunday Mirror article. So much has happened in that year, personally for us and for Trans Radio UK. As part o...10 months ago
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epilogue - While this blog is most definitely over, I wanted to explain that part of the reason is that it was getting in the way of writing my next book called "Note...10 months ago
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I Am Female - If you have been reading some or all of my blog, the title of this post will seem a bit odd. From previous posts it should pretty obvious that I’m a woman....10 months ago
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Mouse Hunt - Still shaking off the rust: If you have delved at all into the first four or five years of posts here (and why haven't you?!), you know that my wife's re...10 months ago
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Full Circle - Felix stood at the edge of the clearing. Within it stood a small, homely cottage. A simple sign on the door read “A Tailor’s Touch.” This is the place, rig...11 months ago
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Sharron Davies goes Full Bigot - Xandra goes full bitch! Whenever anyone claims to want to have a ‘debate’ about the position of transgender people in society, no matter how ‘reasonable’ t...11 months ago
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Trucking Along - Well… Hello there! Life happens ya know? Just straight up, get in the groove and forget your computer exists and then you go to write and you’re like, holy...1 year ago
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Life as a Trans Opera Singer - The National Opera Studio asked me what it was like, to be a trans opera singer – and how we could all make our industry better. So I wrote them this – I...1 year ago
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Reacquainting people at the RIPE meeting - [Hi RIPE meeting attendee, if you happen to stumble upon this post because you where searching for certain keywords, you've probably hit the jackpot. I tru...1 year ago
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A Smile That Could Light up a Room - "I have a lot of questions for you. Do you have any for me?", I asked. "Yes!", she said. "How do you do it? How have you kept yourself from transitionin...1 year ago
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I'M BAAAAAACCCKKKK!!!!! - I AM BACK BIACHES!!! HAHAHA!!!!! Did y'all miss me? I've had such a great, difficult, exhausting, confusing and wonderful few years since I last posted. ...1 year ago
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Easter Rising - It’s been a few months since my last blogpost, and I felt today was a good day to count my blessings. Tonight is the 3rd night of Passover, and the day tha...1 year ago
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The Southern Strategy Is Real - The Southern Strategy is real and I have the proof – a PDF of a May 17, 1970 NY Times article where they interviewed Kevin Phillips, the man who created th...1 year ago
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Wow..so, where to start!? - Its obviously been quite a while since I wrote here. Truth told, I had almost forgotten about this page until I was listing relevant experience for a magaz...1 year ago
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Clearing Dad’s house - When Dad died, it didn’t shock me — I’d been expecting it for a while. And coping with his funeral was OK, too. But neither affected me so much as the chor...1 year ago
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What The Heck Is A Conservative Christian TG Gal? - I use the phrase "conservative christian TG gal" to describe myself, but wanted to clarify that phrase briefly in a blog post. The "conservative" in my d...1 year ago
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Afterword - If you’re wondering where the rest of this blog has gone, I’m sorry to disappoint but after hinting at it for a while, after reaching a particular mileston...1 year ago
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Sometimes - Sometimes I look in the mirror To make sure I’m still there I trace the scars That I made Five … More1 year ago
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They Taught Me - They taught me that I’m pretty. But I shouldn’t talk, because nobody will listen. I shouldn’t try hard, because nobody will care. I shouldn’t cry, because ...1 year ago
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Risk to human rights after Brexit? - This recent article from the Guardian gave me some cause for thought https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/13/post-brexit-trade-partners-ask-uk-to-l...1 year ago
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#148 – Because I can do art once in a while - https://www.deviantart.com/julieannem/art/SketchWIP-2019-2-6-2135-AZMT-784546398 I did mention I had a deviantArt account, right? I did also mention on h...1 year ago
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GRS – 3 Surgeries and One Beautiful Nightmare (Part 3/3) - [Content warnings for graphic depictions/images of bodily functions, surgery, suicide, mental illness, swearing] This is Part III of my little tale about h...1 year ago
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Detaching Myself from My Dysphoria - The other day, I was trying to imagine how my life would be different if I’d never suffered from gender dysphoria. The point wasn’t to create a fantasy lif...1 year ago
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How Transgender Woman Deep Throat without Gagging - Oral sex comes with a lot of satisfaction for both women and men and it is very challenging as well, especially for beginners. But if we move past the in...1 year ago
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Purging -- Part 2 - Last month I wrote about how I have emotional attachments to everything in my closet. I'm thinking there are many others like me. Occasionally I am asked...1 year ago
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Notes for a sketch - thinking on Mermaids - Small cafe, two middleaged women, A and B, sitting down at a table talking in Northern English accents. A - So whats been happening whilst I've been down So...1 year ago
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2018 Review - Part 2 - Part 1 of my review of 2018 covered the goals I set myself. Part 2 deals with all the other things that happened this year, and there has been quite a bit ...1 year ago
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Progress, slowly slowly. - So things seem now to be heading in a scary but ultimately more positive direction for me at last. After a recent discussion with my wife she now seems to ...1 year ago
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Nothing to Say... - Just kidding. I have some stuff to say, my loyal readers. I'm sorry I haven't kept up with this blog, but do you people really want to know each week that ...1 year ago
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see postings on facebook 11 17 2018 - i haven't posted anything in awhile mainly because i spend most of my posting time on facebook. so any of my followers can catch up on my postings there1 year ago
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Nails III - Press on Nails - Part Four - [Ed: Dear Reader, please find a link to Part Three or Part One if you landed here via an exteral link.] hile writing this mega post I went browsing in...1 year ago
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Time to Say Goodbye - In honor of Samhain and Scorpio season, I’m making a decision to clear something from my life that hasn’t really been active for a while. I’ll no longer be...1 year ago
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Not being heard - I often feel like no one hears when I say something about my rights because they chalk it up to just being about politics. They put a deaf ear to my clari...1 year ago
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Ok, just to spout out an opinion and my understanding of UMBRELLAS. - There often and lately seems to be a question of who is trans? Who is more trans? Who suffers more? Who has it harder? Who is an ally and who is part of th...1 year ago
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Brighton - So last Tuesday we took ourselves orf to spend a couple of days away and stay with friends in Brighton. Well it got slightly extended and we came home on S...1 year ago
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UPDATE ON MY HEART AND MIND - People have been asking me how things are going in our families journey in the transgender world, but also my heart. Here is how my heart and soul are fee...1 year ago
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Turns Out I Was Right - Seems the setbacks I deemed minor actually were minor. I’m down 1.2 lbs from yesterday, and right back on track with where I was two days ago. I could se...1 year ago
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Review of The Fence by Lusty Soul - At one time in my life — for most of it actually — I was a male of the species. As I read this story by Lusty Soul, long forgotten memories of the overpow...1 year ago
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May You Find Peace - I have made peace with myself, and can no longer in good faith leave or recommend the content I once posted here. Those writings were my best desperate ho...1 year ago
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Dear Youngest Daughter - When we transition, so many #girlslikeus can lose family. The reasons are not always straightforward. Family might do their best to stand by us. My fami...1 year ago
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It’s been awhile - Warning: this post is different. It talks about things that may make some readers uncomfortable – especially ones that know me personally and in parts it ...1 year ago
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Panties – A Special Pleasure - In our recent poll on lingerie that trans girls and crossdressers prefer, panties tied for first place with 25% of the vote. I don’t profess to having th...2 years ago
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The merry-go-round - It’s been 14 months since I wrote a Parenting Jeremy. Up until recently there has been nothing really of note to write about in our lives with respect to...2 years ago
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Next steps - Hello blog - Yesterday marked an anniversary of sorts for me as it was 5 years ago to the day that I officially came out as Jaclyn to my wife and started to...2 years ago
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Profile: Alex - You can call me… Alex I identify as… Gender-fluid/non-bianary As far as third-person pronouns go, … they/them and female pronouns sometimes he/him feels ri...2 years ago
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This Ain’t About Jobs (10/20/17) - Maybe you saw or heard about the memo put out by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on October 4th that essentially ordered the Justice Department to do a comp...2 years ago
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Last indolent Spinster Almost Daily Report from DOXA 2018 - My last laconic lazy one take video chatting about the last couple days of the festival DOXA 20182 years ago
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Finale - Unfortunately, I am finding that this blog and my life is being used far too often as a political football to promote various agendas and the actual messag...2 years ago
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Finale - Unfortunately, I am finding that this blog and my life is being used far too often as a political football to promote various agendas and the actual messag...2 years ago
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Interesting Article on CNN - Why girls can be boyish but boys can't be girlish - One topic that I find fascination is the idea of shifting gender stereotypes and how people, particularly "men" who enjoy trandtionally "female" things, ar...2 years ago
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Love the kid you've got, not the one you wish you had - Parents of LGBTQ kids, or any kids, even young adult kids, I ask you to listen; to read and to consider: In recent months, I've had the fortune and misfort...2 years ago
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one more cup of coffee - TW The hustle for work continues, which is discouraging but necessary. I’m having relationship issues, as all anyone wants to do is date. Decided that’s ...2 years ago
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Online competition redux - Back in April 2016, I mentioned an online competition where I won a voucher, which I used to buy a skirt and dress, both in size XL. According to their si...2 years ago
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Day 1,245: Moments Frozen in Time - I have to admit, we had a pretty good run here at So There’s That. 21 podcast episodes and 32 blog posts over the course of a year. And a little bit of n...2 years ago
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GET READY TO FIGHT FOR IT, OR LOSE IT - We let this devil of a person get elected. We have been standing by while he eviscerates our country and our democracy. I HATE TRUMP WITH EVERY OUNCE OF MY...2 years ago
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Flying Solo in Vegas, Part 2 - While I was happy I had arrived at my hotel room without any problems, I was tired, hungry, and a little sweaty from the journey. I was also behind my pla...2 years ago
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I wasn’t sure what my curtains are trying to tell me, but then I clued in….. - 40 Days till surgery. 😂😂😂😜 I’m really excited, somewhat petrified but not of the actual procedure and the pain after, but of the stay in a hospital. I ...2 years ago
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So, it's been a while. - How've you been? It's been a while. Almost a year, looking at the last post. Starting to feel old, but maybe that's because the kids are becoming people an...2 years ago
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Its been a while... - I’m not really even expecting that anyone will remember me and read this, but I did think that it was about time my long neglected blog got dusted off and ...2 years ago
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What's in a Name? - Many years ago, while the internet was still in its infancy, I started looking to find out information from other transgender individuals. At that time bul...2 years ago
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Sunday November 19, 2017 - Finally - I started this Journey in Feb/March of 2010, when after the early death of some clients and friends , I decided at 54 years of age, it was now or never. B...2 years ago
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Where is the Washing machine? - We were watching tele and caught the end of a who-dun-it. It involved the death of a rugby coach and he was murdered for being a cross-dresser or transgend...2 years ago
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25 October Journal - Well Folks, I am still working on my other post. I think it will be part of the next book of my life, rather than the end of this one. I am closing this bl...2 years ago
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Fingernails - little things aren't they, fingernails? Certainly nothing to get upset about. But for me fingernails seem to have become the straw that broke the camel's...2 years ago
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Apples & Apples - It was my second year at the Hendersonville Apple Festival in NC. The previous year I went with my wife, we had a great time and enjoyed the day, despit...2 years ago
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The Penultimate Post - It has been a while since I have blogged on here.... a long while. The gaps between my blog posts have slowly widened as I have begun to find myself, more...2 years ago
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Excuse our dust, but we have moved! - I have moved my blog over to a dedicated hosting provider, and we have successfully migrated over to the WordPress platform. We have our own domain name, a...2 years ago
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On the Pride Center of the Capital Region, terfs, and Why Martha Harvey Needs to Resign - CW: lots of swears, lots of terfs (A quick aside on the word terf because I’m going to use it about a thousand times. It’s not a slur. Here’s a doctor tell...2 years ago
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My friend's Rainbow Journey - I recently met someone from Japan, one who I now consider to be my friend, who is traveling around the world talking to Transgender folk and sharing their ...2 years ago
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Trying to reconnect with my children - A lot has been written in the media about cis parents who grow to accept a transgender child. Sadly, very little is available about the opposite scenario ...2 years ago
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That’s all folks………. - Between 1955 and 1959, 143 episodes of “The Adventures of Robin Hood” emerged from a tiny studio in Walton on Thames and burst onto black and white telli...2 years ago
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That’s all folks………. - Between 1955 and 1959, 143 episodes of “The Adventures of Robin Hood” emerged from a tiny studio in Walton on Thames and burst onto black and white telli...2 years ago
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ABC TV Cancels Downward Dog Show - “Every Day my dog looks at me exactly the same way, like I’m the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen. And, I just thought, what if we could see ourselve...3 years ago
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With Purpose - The title of this post really highlights the way I’ve felt the last several months and the experiences I’ve had the chance to take in. Since my last updat...3 years ago
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With Purpose - The title of this post really highlights the way I’ve felt the last several months and the experiences I’ve had the chance to take in. Since my last updat...3 years ago
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Transgender and LGBT++ Rights promised in UK Party Manifestos - This piece is not written to influence how you vote in the general Election on June 8th. it’s too late for that and in my humble opinion getting May out of...3 years ago
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Trans Twitter Gives Bad Dating Advice - Trans Twitter Gives Bad Dating Advice — “You have much gold upon your head,” They answer’d all together: “Buy from us with a golden curl.” — Christina Ro...3 years ago
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It has been a long time… - since my last post. I’m still here. I am still battling with the trauma of multiple surgeries, a disfiguring scar on my forearm, a devastating betrayal f...3 years ago
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I'll miss this platform - But I don't think I'm going to keep using it. It's sad, because I've been writing here for such a long time, and blogging for myself is therapeutic, even i...3 years ago
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Sex, Drugs and Southern Hospitality: An Interview with Sam Peterson - Sam Peterson’s Trunky (Transgender Junky): A Memoir of Institutionalization and Southern Hospitality is the rare book that’s formally experimental AND impo...3 years ago
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India Willoughby, transvestites deserve protection too - Hi India, How are you? Years ago we used to frequent the same forum site so even though we’ve never met, I view you with the same fondness I feel for a...3 years ago
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Thoughts and Updates - I can't believe it's been almost a year since I've posted anything. Time flies and we don't... So...my marriage is still going strong. It's pretty much ...3 years ago
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And happily ever after... - Family snuggle timeI've retired from blogging. I've been channeling my creative energy into other hobbies, and I'm feeling uninspired to write about my wi...3 years ago
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Questions related to the surgery - As mentioned in my previous post i said i would post the questions i asked the surgeon’s assistant. Also, this post is NSFW as there are some details regar...3 years ago
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We Need A “Standards of Care” for Detransitioners - One of my biggest takeaways from attending the recent USPATH conference is that many clinicians and other providers sincerely want more information on unde...3 years ago
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Apology - Recently, I undertook the task of going through my blog posts to get a sense of my history. It has been a bit of a humbling experience – so much so that ...3 years ago
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What I’m talking about - Ok so many of you will have seen this photo, absorbed and passed it by. I just caught it on a video artical on the BBC website. Quite frankly I was surpr...3 years ago
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Watching When We Rise on ABC - I've been watching *When We Rise*, the four part miniseries on ABC about the birth and development of the LGBT movement in America and the parts played in ...3 years ago
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The door is open - One of the things that is true; and that I have been pondering, is that when you come out, your family comes out. I mean; once I am full time, then al...3 years ago
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Trying Out A New Name - I wrote just over a month ago about my anxieties about going away. It’s now less than a week until I actually go which is really exciting. I’m pumped to se...3 years ago
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Stuck In The Middle Again - How to start? I said long ago when I made my choice to back our new President that when he did things I felt were wrong I would call him out on it. Today i...3 years ago
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New pics … at last! - Finally got some long overdue “girl-time” yesterday – first time for over 2 years. I really shouldn’t leave it so long because it isn’t good for my genera...3 years ago
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Why I'm so passionate about the issues of others. - *It's been 2.5 years since I've posted. I said I would post if I had something to say and today, I do. Please note the experience I write about does not in...3 years ago
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We Interrupt This Program - After writing once a week for four years. I’ve finally decided is time to switch things up and stop posting on schedule and only post when I feel like it. ...3 years ago
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What It’s Like to Transition in a Small Town - VICE - What It’s Like to Transition in a Small Town - VICE: Writing this story was so important to me. Thanks to Amond for allowing me to share the beauty in his...3 years ago
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Was only a reader, till now - Me thinks it is time to write something. I’ve been reading T-Central for almost 7 years now. I have much … Continue reading →3 years ago
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Love and Loneliness - *"I've looked at love from both sides now".... Joni Mitchell.* Down on the seawall in my town, a few blocks from where I live, the benches that look ...3 years ago
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New Year, big changes. - *Happy **New** Year!* I begin the new year letting go of some important things. First up is the pseudonym I have used for years. ‘Haust’ is gone, ...3 years ago
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Question - Is looking for an excuse and opportunity to link to and out Susie to my family and friends on Facebook possibly the most stupid and potentially self-destru...3 years ago
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Questioning the Fluctuations - This isn't the scribbling I intended (or promised) to note as I stated in the last entry. However, it is part of my developing thoughts on this future sub...3 years ago
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Yuletide greetings. - *Soon be nobody left now that Leonard Cohen is gone too... Someone else who had to deal with depression and his music soothed my troubled soul. Just sad to...3 years ago
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Victoria’s Secret – The Show - Hey, so yesterday it was time for the amazing show. I haven’t seen the show but I took a look at a lot of pictures and it seemed amazing and I can’t wait t...3 years ago
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Heroes and Hope - It’s times like these that make me feel the most hopeless. I haven’t always been good at dealing with feelings like this. But when the future looks bleak, ...3 years ago
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Cultivation Corner Starting Seeds - So you want to sprout those ganja seeds you found in your stash? First off I want you to be sure that your grow space will be warm enough for seed germinati...3 years ago
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I am able to talk again - I am back on deck and I think more in control of myself than I have been for quite some time. Will be making more additions to this blog as I go along. The...3 years ago
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Ringing the changes part 2 - So, my first post about how I changed my name with various organisations was starting to get a bit long, so this is a continuation. The first can be seen ...3 years ago
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September 22 2016 - Thank you. Thank you for the last four years. Thank you for letting me into your hearts, for letting me be a part of your day, for letting me bounce my th...3 years ago
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My response to a post by Tyler Charles Austen - Dear Mr Austen, On 26th August 2016, you made a post on your eponymous blog (that means you named it after yourself) called “I Can’t Believe I’m Saying Th...3 years ago
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Last Post - So this is it. The last post I’ll make here (for the foreseeable future anyway). I’ve moved my fitness adventures over to http://transtriathlete.com and I’...3 years ago
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A rediscovered poem - I found this in my 2013 dream journal, from when I was still in the closet. My dreams were born from above, not below, or if below, in the primal ember ...3 years ago
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This is goodbye (A happy one) - This is going to be my last post on It’s ok to be a glow stick. I am sad to be saying goodbye but my life has changed dramatically and sadly, there is no r...3 years ago
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Identity Crisis - I have lost my identity. I'm not sure if I'm still mom, wife, daughter or 911 dispatcher. If I'm not any of the above, then who am I besides lost?3 years ago
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Goodbye - It's been a couple of months since I last posted, despite my desire to do an A-Z on the issues I find important. My absence was caused by many things, but...3 years ago
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The gym experience - My fitness in recent years has been something that I have felt has become very important to me. I remember starting running back in the time when I was dea...3 years ago
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The Post-GRS Blues - On Twitter during the week, I joined in a conversation about Gender Reassignment Surgery and general fears regarding such a huge operation. Personally, GRS...3 years ago
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Me... - Realized I hadn't posted in a while. That will change starting with an updated picture of me.3 years ago
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A new audience - I am feeling a little humbled. I was asked last week at my college to talk about transgender issues, to my college group of counsellors in training. I star...3 years ago
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A new audience - I am feeling a little humbled. I was asked last week at my college to talk about transgender issues, to my college group of counsellors in training. I star...3 years ago
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Mid-Year Check In - At the beginning of this year, I wrote a post about my love of new beginnings and my resolutions for 2016. I was not too lofty in my goals; I attempted to ...3 years ago
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My Return and First Time Out… again - I’ve been trying to collect my thoughts the last few days. They have been a jumble of emotions, mostly good. I haven’t felt this way in a long time and f...3 years ago
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Thoughts on the Orlando shooting - There is something surreal, in moments like this, about being a privileged member of an oppressed minority. I can breeze through airport security with whi...4 years ago
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Honestly Geraldine, why do you need to crossdress? - This is the very tentative first step by a somewhat bewildered ordinary man who discovered that at sixty years of age, I needed to crossdress. I hope to de...4 years ago
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At work - It's definitely time for me to start thinking about when and how I'm going to transition at work. Outside of work I'm now living as myself pretty much full...4 years ago
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The First Mothers’ Day - If last year we celebrated the last Father’s Day, this year we introduced the first Mothers’ Day. And yes, the apostrophe is in the right place. I admit to...4 years ago
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On Being A Transwoman in a Bathroom - To be perfectly honest, I am actually really surprised this is a topic that presidential candidates are addressing. Seriously, it’s one thing for people to...4 years ago
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Feeling Positive Again :) - I had been feeling really down about things over the last few months and I know that my recent posts on here haven’t been very positive about my situation....4 years ago
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A good weekend - It’s been a good weekend. I actually feel pretty confident that I could pass one day. I know that’s not the most important thing, but it matters a lot to ...4 years ago
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A good weekend - It’s been a good weekend. I actually feel pretty confident that I could pass one day. I know that’s not the most important thing, but it matters a lot to ...4 years ago
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Goin' to North Carolina. Why Do I Feel Like A "Freedom Rider"? - In NO WAY am I comparing what Transgender people are going through in North Carolina to what Black Americans went through before and during the Civil Right...4 years ago
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My 100th post… - This is my 100th post. I was hoping to make it a special one with a description of another outing as Valerie, in my new modern “blending” outfit. Unfortuna...4 years ago
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Back - Where is she? When is she coming back? What's happening in Tammy World? These are all questions I've gotten over the last few months. Questions shouted...4 years ago
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Ghosts - So it has been almost a year since I last posted. It is not that I’ve had a lack of things to write about, more of a case of writers block – finding words...4 years ago
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Not sure what to say.. - I am not sure what to do, or what to say, depression is my only constant “friend”, with me all the time, someone I hate, yet never hates me back. Medical m...4 years ago
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Back to the Stone Age. - I think the song is fitting, It is not mine, the opinions on this page are mine. In posting this video, I am in no way saying that this group believes as I...4 years ago
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Come Up to the Lab: My Gender Workshop - Ever since Time Magazine proclaimed a “Transgender Tipping Point” a year and a half ago, I’ve been exploring trans identities and expressions that aren’t i...4 years ago
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hiatus - just wanted to let you all know that Will is doing fabulous in recovery (tracking everything diligently on @journeyintomanhood) and in England for his se...4 years ago
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Reminder: Follow my new blog! This one is closing imminently - This is just a quick reminder, in case anyone who cares missed it the first time, that GenderDrift is being turned into a private blog where it can rest pe...4 years ago
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Time to myself - Recently I have been lucky to have a few evenings to myself to let Jenny out of the wardrobe. Most of these occasions have been just in my room as usual, ...4 years ago
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Being a Gender Critical woman born trans is a very lonely place to be - My understanding of gender critical theory is limited. There's no reference text anywhere explaining it, and questioning GC theorists on their own turf nev...4 years ago
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Blogging about it…. - I started this blog because I wanted to help people in a similar situation to me. I was younger and never proclaimed to have all the answers. Sometimes the...4 years ago
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Debunking Bathroom Myths - *Debunking Bathroom Myths* Original article by *Brynn Tannehill *can be viewed *Here* *When the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance was defeated, the ostens...4 years ago
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RUMBLED. BUT IT TURNS OUT TO THE GOOD - As per usual on a Wed evening I make my way to the Butterfly Club support premises to get my self ready to face the world. Nothing new in that. And as per ...4 years ago
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Caitlyn Jenner Speaks at Chicago House Event - Caitlyn Jenner Speaks at Chicago House Event: grvsmth: sometranslady: grvsmth: sometranslady: snowflakeespecial: This isn’t a funny story. Trying on y...4 years ago
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Postscript - I thought that my urge to blog had departed. It hasn't... but I do need to move on. Angie's Aspirations — aka About Angie — was written from the perspecti...4 years ago
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Got A Little Beautified… - Not much here, but I went out for a bit of a day, treated by a couple of friends, and had my brows waxed and got my hair done. Here’s the results. I s...4 years ago
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17 Months on T Update - 17 Months on T Next week marks 17 months on T, nearly one and a half years. I cannot believe I have not posted any update for 5 months, time just really h...4 years ago
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10 Ways to Destroy the Earth - my mother died in this room now it is occupied by my nieces whenever they sleep over a playroom i currently occupy it sleeping on the lower bunk of their l...4 years ago
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Still Here - I realized last week that I hadn’t written a blog…or a Facebook post…or a journal entry…or much of anything in five or six months. Part of me was bothered ...4 years ago
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5 months in - *Continued**, from April 5th 2015* 5 months since the hospital I still don't know much about it. Dissociative Identity Disorder. My amnesia isn't just hav...4 years ago
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Through The Looking Glass - I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but it did. That is, I stopped considering myself “transitioning.” What does that mean, exactly? Am I where I want t...4 years ago
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Been Sick - Isn’t amazing? We tend to think we are the masters of the planet. Then, a debilitating illness hits and we become subservient cry-babies. Something crawl...4 years ago
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Transition Is A Banquet - Transition is not a one-way street, or a bowling lane with the bumpers up. Transition is not a recipe with precise measurements, or a fixed curriculum, or ...4 years ago
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It’s Inherent - The frequency and unexpectedness with which being transgendered asserts itself is ever a source of amazement. Regardless of how deeply in background one ma...5 years ago
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This Rain - Originally posted on chester maynes: Abruptly, water gushes from the sky. I hear the storm drops too loud. Wind creeps cold on my skin. Thunder slits these ...5 years ago
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Telling a Friend - I recently told a friend about Amy. I didn't go into many details or show him pictures or anything, but it felt good to talk about and get a positive reac...5 years ago
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And Last - I used that subject last week as well. It happens. Click to enlarge (the cartoon not the imagination)This is a hard post to organise and a hard post to wr...5 years ago
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The world keeps on turning. - So I guess it’s time to get back into this blog of mine. I mean I’ve been gone for so long and really it’s just time to start again. Since my last real b...5 years ago
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Why Bruce Jenner, Andreja Pejic and other Trans Celebrities Still Don’t Matter - Recently there have been a number of celebrities that have come out to announce that they define as transgender. For some of them it wasn’t a shocker, for ...5 years ago
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On Reconciling my Beliefs, Depression and Gender - Howdy. Sorry it's been a while, I am simply the most infrequent blogger in the world... I've been buried under piles of work for what seems like forever, a...5 years ago
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End game... - So things didn't get better...I slipped further and last Tuesday I went to my scheduled appointment...when she saw me the choices were go home for a matter...5 years ago
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Handbags & Glad Rags………. - I always feel a bit rotten about writing a new post when I have so many posts from others to … Continue reading →5 years ago
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Commenters and deep thoughts - I would like to start by apologizing for the long break between posts. A little thing called life intervenes and my writing suffers. Family, health, work, ...5 years ago
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Jenna Talackova, and the importance of transitioning when young - I greatly admire Jenna Talackova, the beautiful, sexy, and courageous M2F transgender model, beauty contestant, reality television star, and actress. I ...5 years ago
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Motorhead Girls - Motorhead Girls ... we are girls who love cars, trucks, bikes, planes, and boats. Anything with a motor. Maybe we love some of them, maybe we love all of ...5 years ago
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Shutting down - I've decided that I am not, after all, the blogging type. I never managed it in my other identity either, so I don't know why I should be surprised. So,...5 years ago
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Dangerous Situation - ***** This post might be triggering ***** Something really scary happened last evening. I was standing outside with a friend (who is also homeless and we u...5 years ago
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Could it really be THAT easy? - So, not going to get too excited here, but bear with me, kay? Last night, I decided to talk to Phyl about her withdrawals and pulling away. I wanted to try...5 years ago
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One Year as Me! - Dianne Piggott 10/30/2013 One year. Just one year. One entire year. All of one year. One circle of the Earth around the Sun. A year ago to...5 years ago
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Cumberbatch and his offense offence - Poor old Benny Cumberbatch…him and his big old posh, ex slave owning gob. Actually I feel for the bloke. Trying to do his best for British actors of colour...5 years ago
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Coming out on Facebook. - I have a relatively small number of friends on facebook, I keep it that way, I don’t add anyone I meet. Everyone on my friends list is actually my friend o...5 years ago
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XXY: Reflections of Gender in Children - A while back, I read a very sad story not related to Leelah Alcorn although that is another sad story. This one is about an XXY child who was gender denie...5 years ago
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New Hair … :) Trying different looks :) - So the new wig arrived… and figured a day off would be fitting to try it on :) Here are a few pics… Ya short and sweet post … :P Peace and Love! Tamara :)5 years ago
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Transgender Q&A - When it comes to the subject of transgender and the LGBT community, I think that there are three different types of people. The first (and the fastest gro...5 years ago
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I is for Identity Politics - Hello all. For my first post of 2015, I am going back to blogging through ye old alphabet. Today I is for identity politics. Identity politics are how i...5 years ago
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Leelah, and all the others who struggle - Happy New Year! I'm so sorry I don't update regularly! I have been off school for a couple weeks, so I have no good excuse, but I hope you all had a wonder...5 years ago
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A New Christmas with family - As anyone can expect the end of the year can bring surprises and lots of joy to one's heart and soul. This year is really an exception for Kay and I, as w...5 years ago
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On the other side! - It’s been a few days since I last posted on my blog, and for good reason. Thursday, 11th December 2014 I finally had the surgery I had been waiting so lon...5 years ago
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Saying goodbye - The time has come for me to say goodbye and put this blog to bed. I doubt anyone reads it anymore, but I’m the type of person who likes closure, so I gue...5 years ago
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Xmas 2014 - I thought I should drop a post in, and wish everyone a happy Xmas. If you should be reading this, and you are a Pagan like my son, or any of the non-christ...5 years ago
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11-18-2014 Entry: Pulling Back the Transgender Curtian - Two days from now will be Transgender Day of Remembrance, which I am sad to say that before this year, I knew nothing about. I just finished scrolling thro...5 years ago
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No Big Deal - My daughter started high school last month. The other night she told my wife and me that there's a transgender girl in her homeroom. During the summer ...5 years ago
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I finally legally exist! - On July 1st, 2014 it finally happened. The law that made it impossible for me and many others like me to change their gender on any official documents drop...5 years ago
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A Controversial Stance On The Word “Queer” - Controversial new video about the use of the word queer in the LGBT community.5 years ago
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8 Steps on How to Get Your Ex Boyfriend Back Immediately - If you are trying to get your ex boyfriend back, but are fighting and get no results, then you should know this is a common thing that tons of girls go thr...5 years ago
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Pigtails - Last night as I was hugging Kegan good night, I started playing with her hair and realized her hair is at that almost long enough to put into a super short...5 years ago
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She Returns - Gee, that was a long time coming, wasn't it? I managed to survive from February to July at the Good Samaritan House at Westgate. This is a Christian-run fa...5 years ago
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The Maker of Noses - Like many of you, I enjoy music, and I look to it for inspiration and support. My taste in music is quite eclectic, ranging from hymns through jazz and roc...5 years ago
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July 18th 2014 - I know I haven't posted in a long time, things have just gotten crazy around here. We were finally able to get pregnant with our third, and recently found...5 years ago
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been proven wrong - I have had many people walk in and out of my life. And a lot of them have been anything but nice to me. Over the years most of my friend have turn against...6 years ago
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I’m not sure what “normal” means, but i think it feels like this - It’s been a while since i’ve posted anything here, and historically that has meant that things aren’t going well. This time, however, it means that we’ve b...6 years ago
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Warrior Princess - If you read my recent “Pants!” post, you know about the pants, the Pokemon, and the boy BFF. I didn’t mention Xena. I fell hard for Xena in college in the ...6 years ago
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Tumor no more - On January 8, 2012 I was informed that the fight to live was over, I would not be getting my last Chemo treatment, all scans have no cancer traces in them ...6 years ago
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Vote for Sophia - I'm running in a mock election and I need your votes. You might be asking why I need your vote, and *how in the heck did I wind up in politics?* Well, my ...6 years ago
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Keepin’ On - When I was driving home from work this afternoon I started to think of this blog and its lack of updates. I think the general trend is that when I dress mo...6 years ago
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A Question - So, I've been doing this girl thing for a while now. It's good, but there is some weirdness... Has anyone else experienced this? [Bumps into a doorjam, or...6 years ago
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Day 105: Whiskey Aging… DONE! - So after nearly 3 and a half months it’s done! I ended up with a bottle and a half of sweet, dark whiskey. It’s amazingly easy to do. At this point, I’m ...6 years ago
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Here's a Little Something No One Told You - Milestones are things to be celebrated. In our culture we have only a few of them high school graduation, marriage, parenthood, (divorce), and death. Other...6 years ago
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Sweeping the Ashes - “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.” “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme...6 years ago
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Another new chapter - *or the next stop on the timeline...* *Anyway, as some of you may remember, in a galaxy, far, far..wait, wrong story.* *I married my other half 13 years a...6 years ago
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I'm coming out and I want the world to know... - As the weeks went by I've became more and more emboldened with my transition. I started buying more clothes, and started laser hair removal. On Christmas...6 years ago
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It has been too long since last I blogged - Yes, I know, more than two years have gone by, and some of you may be wondering if all is well. YES! Everything remains wonderful. We've now been happily m...6 years ago
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It's "her's" - I've been living as woman for two years now, two really good years. I was and still am one of the lucky few. I have gone through this transition without lo...6 years ago
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Paula Deen Quote - “I feel like ‘embattled’ or ‘disgraced’ will always follow my name. It’s like that black football player who recently came out. He said, ‘I just want to...6 years ago
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Link to my daughter’s blog post - Here’s something my daughter posted today… Hexydezimal A fallen angel returns. hexydezimal.wordpress.com Questions for the Transgender Community Happy bela...6 years ago
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Three Unwise Men - Yet another bawbag is frothing at the mouth. This latest cretinous oaf, a Russian actor of whom this reporter at least has never heard, says he would "stuff...6 years ago
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Hanging in, hanging out, hanging on - It has been a while since I have posted anything here. Up to this point, I have maintained this blog as a combination of sporadic articles, and the occasio...6 years ago
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I Dreamed a Dream in Times Gone By... - This past week has been especially difficult because of the second coming out of 'Marcy' Michael's female alter gender identity. My strife is entirely i...6 years ago
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Enough - Originally posted on Nuclear Unicorn: My approach to Cathy Brennan has long mirrored my approach to Ann Coulter; I generally refuse to dignify their delibe...6 years ago
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Ether Radio - Last Tuesday I took the day off work to run errands. Around 8:30 in the morning I was sitting in my boyfriend's car by a gas pump. Peter was inside colle...7 years ago
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Hatred, Transphobia & Twitter storms.. - I'm far from surprised that this has blown up like it has.. To be honest it was only a matter of time, Trans people put up with an awful lot, I don't want ...7 years ago
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The Wedding and the Beach House - It was a balmy June Saturday in Napa valley, California. The winery Heather’s cousin Rosalind had chosen for the wedding was beautifully placed amidst rol...7 years ago
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Retrospect - Spring 2011 - The Highs and Low of being a TGirl - Widemouth Bay, CornwallBy the spring of 2011 I felt that things were going quite well and that with my new image I was well on the well to achieving the g...8 years ago
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Queer Utopia - Up until last month, I hadn’t been abroad for years. Two trips to Crete, aged 13 and 14, and then I found myself in a desert. A travel one. As a student in...8 years ago
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Reality TV - I was reassembling the bike last weekend with radio 4 on drip-feed and heard a piece about people who live a second life on the Internet. It appears that f...11 years ago
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