I respect her for remaining composed and measured in her response. I know I couldn’t do that. Even though I don’t care for the use of the word terrorist with the festering collection of hate groups gathered there with the sole intent of inciting trouble that day. But I recognize the term works and is accurate.

Thanks for the information, I am trans and my boyfriend is as well.. I find us both in an interesting and challenging place. Navigating dysphoric triggers and affirming each other. I am the first of us to start hormones and it has been a wild ride first getting to the point where I was getting something close to what…

Oh goodness yes, I may be new to accepting my own gender identity and finally doing something about it. And to be frank this whole thing has made it clear my sexual identity is ambiguous at best. But as a distant observer too scared to embrace who they were I got to see so many of these internal divisions even within…

Oh dear, it must be hot in here because my eyes are sweating... Nothing gives me greater joy than bumbling my way through being there for someone who is scared to death and needs a little hope. I often like to say I lead by bad example.. and I completely agree.. don’t run from it... it doesn’t matter if you do…

Though I don’t think this thread is the best location for our chat.. I don’t really have a better way to more privately reach out. And to be honest I don’t mind that much if it gets someone seeking help for themselves.

I try to use my energy and passion towards a future where hopefully trans folk aren’t hated as much. If all works out, I’ll be partnering with one of the few informed consent clinics in my state to try to offer more widespread help and acceptance to trans people in more areas.

If we can’t win now, we can at least live our lives well and with love...something that hate cannot do. We will persist in our existence and we even have science on our side to shut down the dissenters.

I wish this shocked me, I wish I could feel something other than building fear and anxiety. I often wonder where I would be if I had found help as a young adult and transitioned when I used to cry myself to sleep not understanding who I am versus now with some measure of resource and a far more understanding and…

It is a symbol of how femininity is considered less than masculinity in our culture. So when women put on a masculine suit it is considered a positive symbol of their strength. Mind you this acceptance was something hard won but speaks to the lingering belief that there is more value in one side of the gender spectrum…

Sorry but you are wrong. And missing the point entirely to boot. The issue is how we treat femininity and women as less than, and that transwomen by openly expressing their internal gender become freaks, perverts, or just crazy. That the cis-public is so perversely fascinated with our transitions and what we do to…

I have never believed even as a young child thrown into a Sunday school a couple of times when my parents suddenly felt the “need”. I was like this is weird and a bit silly. It did not seem any more real than the Doctor Seuss I was reading and Dr.S was for more entertaining. That said I cling to the feeling that no…

Oh goodness, this story like so many others I absorb the painfully earned knowledge of the transwomen before me I find myself fearful about how society will see not just me but those near me as I don’t have the luxury of the attractiveness of youth or it’s freedom from obligations. But what I have had is the great…

I don’t mean to be sensitive, though after dealing with a troll who thought they solved the “bathroom problem” on the little transgender support site I frequent I am a tad grumpy about this. First off that question about if those two women should be allowed to use the woman’s bathroom implies that there is some…

I so agree, transmen are awesome! (I am so in love with a guy right now who just so happens to be one so I might be a bit biased. We are both just starting our transitions and the sharing and support has been mind blowing.. Yay me over one month on HRT!)

I admit I am an edge case, but in grade school in the 70s and 80s as a boy I was fine all As gifted and such. Hit junior high, puberty, gender dysphoria, being a nerd.. I fell apart, my little group was no defense from it. Now I am finally confronting that hell I buried long ago and transitioning. In the process I met…

I have tried to reach out to confused people with my own limited personal experience of being transgender and so far all I have found is willful ignorance. One person was so concerned that I not change myself it was almost sweet. What I have not had the stomach for is talking with the people who think we are mentally…

This is not about a random person this is dealing with family and being disappointed in them.

I grumbled about Trump’s treasury secretary choice figuring that was a easy and neutral talking point. He is a mixed bag and I had no idea he actually voted Trump and was sensitive about the whole thing. (He does not always vote R to my knowledge and is not a fan of “big business”.) As to me I am not looking for pity…

This weekend my half-brother (who I consider a bit of a bigot so I try to avoid some topics as I don’t need my kids hearing his garbage) but he offered to help me take my rusty old grill to the dump in front of my mom so I was obliged without a good reason. On the way back I grumbled about Trump, what ensued was 20…

Water’s freezing and boiling points are determined by purity and outside pressure as well. And freezing like any crystallization process can be suppressed if there is nothing for crystals to form on. I am sure someone has made some complicated rig for this but yea. I have long argued that while the metric system is…