I try to remain calm on these things... I don’t particularly care for my passport or driver’s license photo which were both taken earlier in my HRT progress. They approved both name and gender changes in December/January after some questions on a non-temporary basis. I did it earlier than I would have liked because I…

Screw him and this argument! And thank goodness he was spotted by two others before he could do what we all know he was going to do. Sexual assault is gotten away with far too much and while putting away and destroying this man’s life for it won’t help those who still suffer in silence. Letting him off or reducing his…

Oh my goodness, maybe I am out of touch here. I have to be really careful with my social media exposure. But how in the living hell can people who were not a significant part of Anthony’s life feel that they have any place judging her or attacking her on what is at best ideas they pulled from their nether regions as…

To me it is a rather expensive “it’s okay I guess” ring. But I also expect it has meaning to them and to me that is what is important, not that it is something I don’t care for. And that is something I have tried to impress upon my boyfriend that giving bigger gifts, more expensive gifts as some proof of your love is…

I can never pass up reading about this stuff and living vicariously through it. To me it all seems alien, this piece of dating and relationships I have never done. I would likely explode from my anxiety before I met the first person. Still I try to think what I would write and it all seems so boring.

That’s awesome! Sometimes I wish I had some good LGBTQ people in my youth to counter the shame thrown at me. Most people assumed I was gay and taunted or threatened me endlessly. I still hate how much I self isolated from any real help or connection. Because I couldn’t accept myself it also didn’t help that my…

I guess this is a place where I appreciate the struggle of other sexual minorities but don’t feel an emotional connection to it. I grew up in the 80s and can’t think of a single moment where I believed in a religion enough that it could have been used against me or that there was something as organized as this form of…

I am a tired 48 as of last month... not because of age... but because for about two years I have watched my life blow up in my face and now slowly come back together completely different like really really different. It is all the awkwardness of puberty with none of the raging energy and a stack of bills and therapists…

Oh lets be honest here unless she is blonde, attractive, compliant, and blindly loyal to him Trump will never nominate a woman. I was expecting his list to be half members of his own family and I am sure it would have been if someone had not made it for him. And looking at my Trump to english translator “all american”…

Oh goodness the lack of human decency of these people, these companies profiting off of it, and every politician or administration official that promotes or enables this. It is disgusting. I want these bigots out of office and measures put in place to make sure this kind of thing never happens again. Some days I feel…

I take solace in that outside elementary school where I had no choice i never let them take pictures of me, never took part in any clubs, or did anything to get noticed and didn’t attend graduation or any prom and never went to the office to get my diploma after. If memory serves my only yearbook entry was a blank…

While I would love to blame the evil cheeto-in-chief and I do to some extent... (I can’t tell you how his misdirected war on opioids has hurt and killed people who struggle with chronic pain like fibro.) I think the decades long rather successful war on the low to middle class here has done more to increase anxiety…

Oh goodness I am with you on that one... In many ways I am glad my sexuality was a bit ambiguous and not intensely driven in my teen years. It was bad enough having to deal with what I now recognize as fairly intense dysphoria over puberty and ADD/ADHD symptoms with no solution and not understanding any of it in the…

I agree, though people’s mixed use makes things ambiguous the lawyer may required by law to use their client’s only legal identity for public and legal statements. Where I tend to give more weight is how people they were romantically with refer to them if the relationship was a positive one. And yes at the time it I…

I have not done the research and that article doesn’t make it any clearer to me. Women have for various reasons taken on male guises throughout history. I am not always convinced that these were always a indication of being transgender. I know of quite a few that clearly were but I am cautious in assuming these…

You know what... I want more opportunities for transgender people to get into roles or activities expressing themselves via the media itself as directors, writers, editors, or whatever. What I don’t care about is any one particular role in any single film. What I care about is how we are portrayed. I get why people…

Thank you for this. I don’t read much any more I think because I came to books the wrong way, never found characters who I felt close to, and was just too busy escaping my life via other means. This might be the first time I am actually wanting to read something for myself in a long time. I have long struggled with my…

I confess I never expect much of action movies and I have the advantage of not being a comics girl so I wouldn’t know what I am missing from the source material. If the story is good then I will be fine.  I know in the run up to our group going to see Black Panther I learned more about him and the other characters…

I get you on superhero fatigue.... I only went with my boyfriend to see that Avengers movie because we had won free tickets that came with a little money for concessions... (I am a sucker for sweets and seeing more Thor... such a sweet sweet pirate angel.... As to BP... So many to love...)

Color me skeptical but I just…

I find myself in a weird place on where the democrats should be. Because on one hand I want much of what she is seeking to do but I also want as many of these patricharial, bigoted rich men out of office. And I really don’t know much about the political culture of the midwest or how to appeal to them. I am just so…