I've been inactive here for months but reading twitter has piqued me once again, so here goes.

Following on from what I've read elsewhere on the net regarding how open to be about oneself and how it affects one's life, I've been thinking:

I generally function with the idea that everyone I come into contact with knows I have been transsexual/ ( Read more... )

I've been quiet on this blog for some time now. i don't know how frequently I'll post in future but in the meantime...

It may be noticed by some that I am moving away for a loud LGBTI For the record, because I've mentioned this many times I have an intersex background (diagnosed male at birth) but I was living in a dual gender role until my late ( Read more... )

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/nov/02/my-husbands-sex-change?cat=society&type=article

It's a traumatic read. A person's story full of pain and I can recognise the upset she has to begin with - I've heard it, I've seen ( Read more... )

What is it I hate so much about being transsexual? I keep on asking myself constantly.

As a friend said:

It's like a sociology book called Black Like Me by a jewish sociologist in the 1950s - basically he took melanin tablets to make his skin darken and then travelled through the deep south of America - and surprise surprise, although he was ( Read more... )

I don't know if I'm just tired? Maybe I am. It's been a very long day. All recorded on twitter and cross posted to my Facebook page.

But I feel like I've just had an epiphany. I've been text chatting, just now,with Yvonne online. We've been chatting about loads of things and I'd love to record some of them here but it would take too long, however, ( Read more... )

At 4.30pm today: I have spoken to the Senior Clinical Nurse - Iffy Middleton (really, really lovely) - who was actually present at yesterday's appointment and I am going to see her again on Tuesday to decide once and for all if I am fit for surgery in 5 weeks time however, during our phone call she commented that it's likely I may not be, due to ( Read more... )

I guess what I was asking the vicar was not "Are you or your parishioners accepting of me?"

It would be nice to be accepted by them but it's not essential to me.

I'm also not asking "What does the bible say?"

After all, ask that to a Catholic priest, an Anglican vicar or a Baptist minister and each will interpret the same scripture differently.

What I ( Read more... )

I posted this comment earlier today in an online transgender forum. I am so fed up with all the bickering and back room discussions about how we as a group in society are politically put down and then these little private discussions inevitably end up in nothing.

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It is all very well going on about bad treatment, unfair poilitics etc etc.

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Sometimes I just want to drop my life. I don't want to be transsexual or transgender, just a normal woman who isn't plagued by a past involving having lived as the opposite gender. I start thinking...

What would it be like to just have no reference in my life to anything transgender? 
To just living my woman's life? 
I'm a woman, a partner, a step- ( Read more... )

I read on a forum the following statement:

"Being trans is the most important thing in my life."

And it got me thinking... not that I want to take any of the author's words out of context but I was drawn particularly to the above statement and wondered what they meant by it exactly?

If I tried to make those words my own I'd say that I could not, not ( Read more... )