Rhonda had several holiday parties to attend this past month and, as we all know, parties are for getting glammed up. In this post, she shares one particular outfit she picked out and she looks gorgeous!
......and you've got to see our girl's Ms Santa outfit!
Cyrsti shares some thoughts and holiday photos with us.
Go here for Clare's post.
Go Rhonda's post to read the Cross Dressing Night Before Christmas.
Go to the post to see the cute outfits!
To find out just what Lynn's first two Christmas wishes are, go here!
Agree or disagree? You can leave a comment, but read her post first.
An interesting post, from Heather. She's flies, presenting female, to visit her parents, who had never seen her en femme. You'll want to read Heather's post to find out how she fared when going through security at the airport and whether or not she presented en femme to her parents. Oh, and there's a trip to the emergency room in this post also!
You'll just have to go here to find the answers.
Sophie has scheduled 12 locations for her 2022 speaking tour. If you live in Ontario, Quebec, or the Maritime provinces, this is your chance to meet and hear Sophie.
This is one of those "feel-good" blog posts that I love. In this one, Cyrsti has a nice, and long awaited, chat with her daughter's husband. It was a good time for it too, when family gets together for the American Thanksgiving holiday.
This is a guest post on Kandi's blog, from Lisa, in Toronto. She writes about a night out, in downtown Toronto, with her wife and a bunch of like-minded friends. Nice post, Lisa!
So if between here and there, somehow magically I do in fact end up with
this fantasy vagina you speak of, then sure, yeah, I’ll dilate it. I’ll
dilate the hell out of it. But I didn’t really think of that in
practical daily terms. Possibly the first real thing was when I was
sitting in my surgeon’s office and his amazing assistant Debbie tells me
that I’m going to need to take off work for the next four months,
primarily so that I can stick to the dilation schedule. Um, wait what?
It’s going to be that involved? I've read many blog posts involving dilating following GCS, but this one, from Kelly, really says it all, in easy to understand words.
This is a guest post, from Stephanie, on Andrea's blog. It's an awesome post about an awesome bra fitting experience. Oh, if it were only like this everywhere! Stephanie did everything right by freely identifying herself as a crossdresser. If you're brave enough to go for a bra fitting (and not like me, since all of mine are via on-line ordering), do read this post.
Thanks to Lynn Jones for suggesting I feature this post.
Sue has a few words (and a nice photo) on tights and hose.
The Last Week Tonight host looks at the extraordinary legal attack on trans rights in the US and conservative disinformation around gender-affirming care.
This is a re-post, from The Guardian. Thanks to Rhonda for sharing.
Just what is our blogger referring to in the quote, above? Go here to find out.
Chloe has a few things to say about those who fight for women's rights yet have no respect for trans rights.
You're going to have to read Kelly's whole post to understand the comment, above, but the title of her post is a hint. What this girl went through with her therapist was just devastating. Go here to read the post.
You can complete the sentence in the title with "smile". This really great post goes well beyond that, however. I consider it one of those "must reads".....perhaps because I so relate to it.
When Emilia described the bit of blonde and the end of the woman's ponytail, her friend said, “That sounds like a Balayage.” So that's what it's called! Emilia liked the idea and gave it a try on her own long hair. Read Points of Light, to see how it turned out.
There are times when it feels a strange thing to be a blogger. To be
someone who writes and shares what they do and who they are.
Occasionally, these can be very personal moments.
I have followed Lynn's blog for about as long as she's been writing. I've loved her sense of style, her sense of humor and her support of her local trans group and the trans community. I've also greatly respected her love of family.
I have sensed, however, that some of her posts, as of late, have been a bit dark. There's nothing wrong with that. Looking back at my own blog, there have been numerous dark posts but it was my way of working through my own demons. More importantly, Lynn's current post, gives us an insight on just how she keeps herself "grounded" by going back through her own writing over the years to revisit the good times and the not so good times and perhaps making her realize that life in 2005 is really not that much different from life in 2022.
From my point of view, this is rather personal question from a reader, but this trans-guy, from Canada, does address the question.
Woman's jump suits are just lovely and sexy. Our blogger just got her first and has included some photos so we can all see just how fab she looks in it.
Jenny did write the letter and has shared it with us.
Generally speaking, when out and about I have had more support than abuse from the public; online I have found transphobia to be fairly rare. Of course, I am very alert to the possibilities of its cropping up anywhere, especially with such a hate-driven family as mine, but it does seem to me that the number of people who are prepared to dedicate a significant proportion of their lives to causing trouble to us is pretty small.
A very nice and positive post, from Sue.
An update on how Charlotte is doing with her longer, and still growing, hair.
This is a guest post, on Stana's Femulate blog. The author, Paula Gaikowski, has a lot to say, in a relatively short post.
It's been a year since Michelle presented as male in the workplace. Go here for her update.
I want to introduce a new blog, from a long-time blogger. Perhaps you will recognize her writing style. Enjoy Emilia's new blog and be sure to add a comment.
This post, from Lynn, is directed towards the UK government but really applies to all governments (mine - USA - included).
Thank you, Lynn, for posting!
I've got to apologize for the infrequent posts in the past few months and also for not replying to emails. I've been extremely busy with work and work-related travel.
With that said, I thought I'd share a post from several years ago, along with some follow-up thoughts.
The original post was part of a "Thoughts and Reflections" series of guest posts, we did in 2010. You can still find those posts on T-Central. One of the guests posts was from someone I simply identified as "A". Today, I can identify him as Art.
When I was actively blogging via my Calie's Chronicles blog, Art would often reply to my blog posts via private emails. He shared much of his life with me and I found that we had much in common in the way of career and hobbies. For some reason, Art felt very comfortable sharing his life and very private thoughts with me. While he never gendered himself as female, Art was clearly trans and if he were growing up in today's world, Art would have definitely transitioned from male to female.
But Art never grew up in today's world. When we were sharing emails, he mentioned to me that he was 90 years old. I enjoyed our email exchanges and it felt good in that I was an outlet for him....a way for him to share this dark secret he had kept for so many years.
After several years of exchanging emails, I stopped hearing from Art. I wrote him a few times, but never received a reply.
About five years after the last email from Art, I received an email from his son who informed me that Art had passed away. His son had discovered the emails Art and I had exchanged and was absolutely astonished to discover that his father had kept this secret from the family all of these years. It's really too bad since his son was extremely understanding and specifically wrote me to say thanks for allowing his father to feel comfortable enough to discuss his feelings with me.
It's been many years since I received that email from Art's son. It meant a lot to me to get some closure and also to hear that Art's son was so accepting of his father's deep secret.
Today, I want to re-post the original guest post, along with my introduction, which dates back 12 years ago.
Imagine,
if you will, that the year is 1937. You're 17 years old and have
feelings that your gender and sex do not match. What would you have
done? How would you have reacted?
I suppose for some that suicide was an option. Others may have suppressed it while living very frustrated lives.
Gender reassignment surgery was (with one exception) unheard of at the time.
Per the Andrology website:
"Much
as it might have been desired by patients thus afflicted, hormonal and
surgical gender reassignment were impossible until the thirties of this
century. Modern documented history of transsexualism and gender
reassignment starts in 1930 with the first recorded adult sex change
operation on a Danish artist in Germany. Einar Wegener became Lily Elbe."
After
that, it was only in 1953 with the story of the surgical gender
reassignment of the American ex-GI George Jorgensen, who became
Christine Jorgensen, that transsexualism received worldwide publicity.
"A"
didn't have to imagine what it was like to be 17 years old in the year,
1937. He lived it and he had to also live with "it", although he
didn't know at the time that "it" would be referred to as gender
identity disorder many years later.
"A"
sent me an email some time ago, as the result of a guest post I did on
Lori's (former) blog. Although clearly transgender, he always has
referred to himself in the male persona, as I am referring to him now.
I
asked "A" to share his thoughts and reflections on transitioning and he
sent me a draft. I was somewhat concerned with a paragraph near the
end of the draft, because it referred to me. I told him that this was
his essay and it should not be about me and asked him to delete the
paragraph. He insisted it stay. At the end of his essay, I have
included his reply and the reason why.
- Calie
Ummm.......Seriously? Trans Express includes a link to the original post, on Pink News.
While some do de-transition, Cyrsti is not one of them. Excellent post!
I'm a week late in posting this. I didn't see any comments, so I thought I'd feature it. Honestly, I'm not sure just what Jacklyn is trying to tell us. Is it a trans purge or a life purge? I do hope it's not the latter. I've seen too much of that over the years. Nevertheless, she is telling us it is her Last Post.
Ever the stylist, Rhonda offers some good advice in a short post.
It's a good question. A short post, from Joanna.
Yeah, it's a long post, but it should be required reading for you and your significant other.
Well done Hannah!
I’ve currently got 51 days to go until my special day is here.....
Monika does a nice interview with gorgeous trans fashion model, Dusty Rose Smith. You'll find the answer to the question, above, along with many more in this blog post.
I read this post and just said to myself.....wow! The post is written by a loving father, and that's all I'm going to say. You NEED to read this one.
Oh, you must see this post, from Sara! The photos are awesome, as are her comments. Just a wonderful blog post!
Deeply repressed in my twenties, so ashamed of cross-dressing that I had aversion therapy, not knowing my own feelings, I wanted a girlfriend like a repressed gay man might- to make me normal, to make me appear normal. I believe a woman fell in love with me at University, saw the gentle soul below the layers of terror and arrogance, and took years to recover. I did not see it.
This is one of those brutally honest posts and well worth reading. My apologies to Clare for posting this so late.
Here's the link to Cyrsti's original post. In the most recent post, Cyrsti features Connie's comments on wigs. Both are good reading.
