What sort of response would a trans boy (who until now everyone thought was a girl) who was transitioning and starting to present as male get at a fairly large Reform synagogue in a major US city? Setting is modern day. There are several gay and lesbian couples in the congregation, and most people are OK with that, but obviously just because people ( Read more... )

Setting: Modern day, in a somewhat isolated forest. But not too isolated ( Read more... )

Setting: modern day Italia
Research Conducted:
Googled "insults ftm discrimination", tried looking for pejorative synonyms to "ftm" in the Urban Dictionary, checked some trans-gender LJ communities.

Hi!
I want to write a fic with a trans man (ie a female-to-male transsexual person). This character is Italian and a member of a mafia family. This is ( Read more... )

I'm in the planning stages of a story that takes place in an Earth analogue world with the main setting being a small nation similar to pre-colonial midwestern America. The majority of the characters are of a native tribal culture, and my protagonist is, for all intents and purposes, a transgender man. His people (an as-of-yet-unnamed tribe, ( Read more... )

First of all, apologies if somewhere along the line I say something that can be misconstrued as offensive. I am absolutely out of my depth here and most of the time I never even know which (PC) expressions to use ( Read more... )

Hi all,

I'm mainly looking for input on what people consider to be typical for a set gender.

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I'm working on a story based on a particular thread from the Mahabharata (wherein a female character is reincarnated, raised in a male-gendered fashion, and finally transformed to physically male), and I could use assistance from any FTM or genderqueer individuals who would be willing to answer some questions on that topic ( Read more... )

I've been on Google for hours now searching for everything within the realms of male crossdressing, victorian era and civil war as well as everything in between it seems and I'm still not getting a very good idea of what I'm looking for ( Read more... )

So I have a trans male character who was born in the UK in 1953, and I'm trying to figure out some details of what his legal and medical transition might have entailed and when. I've read the Wikipedia article on transsexualism, an H2G2 article on 'Transsexualism - A Recent History,' a variety of UK websites for transsexuality, and googled ( Read more... )

I'm in the process of my fic for lgbtfest; it's a story about L-O-L-A Lola from the Kinks song, from her point of view. I have my angle on it, and I'm loving it so far, but I want to know if anyone here knows good sources on the slang of the time or, ideally, any personal accounts about daily queer/trans culture in that period. (Backstory: I've decided she ( Read more... )