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Transgaf: 'cause boys will be girls (and vice versa)

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Cetra

Member
Therapy went well. It was like we never stopped. Decided it'd be best wait and start hormones after I move. Because doing so now would just 'cause more stress. Nosey as hell Grandmother etc.

I forgot how huge of an energy zapper an hour of fighting to keep the mental defenses offline is. :lol

Also:
Jamie xxoo said:
Hey welcome back! You didn't miss much. It's mostly just pics of Sexy Lexi and inane conversation between Ains and the Baroness of Win +1.
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Fixed! :D
 
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AkuMifune

Banned
Jamie xxoo said:
Hey welcome back! You didn't miss much. It's mostly just pics of Sexy Lexi and inane conversation between Ains and some pointless scrub.
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And your complete ensorcellment of everyone in the pics thread. Hey I like that word. I should use it more often.
 
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Alfarif

This picture? uhh I can explain really!
Jamie xxoo said:
Hey welcome back! You didn't miss much. It's mostly just pics of Sexy Lexi and inane conversation between Ains and some pointless scrub.
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Thanks! I still haven't read back yet. I've been moving into our new house that we closed on last Thursday. Each of my days has been spent moving crap, cleaning up the apartment, and arranging/building furniture for the house. Oh, and I didn't have internet until like yesterday and it's slower than dial up at that... yay for my city's DSL service.
 
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Jangaroo

Always the tag bridesmaid, never the tag bride.
AkuMifune said:
And your complete ensorcellment of everyone in the pics thread. Hey I like that word. I should use it more often.
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I rarely use that Tex Avery Wolf Whistle picture. I look for any chance that I can get to post it.
 
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Jamie xxoo

Member
Alfarif said:
Thanks! I still haven't read back yet. I've been moving into our new house that we closed on last Thursday. Each of my days has been spent moving crap, cleaning up the apartment, and arranging/building furniture for the house. Oh, and I didn't have internet until like yesterday and it's slower than dial up at that... yay for my city's DSL service.
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Ugh I know just where you're at. I'm still unpacking and orting and I went from super fast ADSL-2 right on top of the phone exchange to bog-slow broken ADSL in the middle of nowhere. It takes me 3 hours to upload a 90MB file and browsing the net while I wait so SOOOOOOO slow.

@tehAinsley I forgot how draining those first appointments are. Are you OK?

@AkaMifune I bet you rock at scrabbulous.
 
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Cetra

Member
Jamie xxoo said:
@tehAinsley I forgot how draining those first appointments are. Are you OK?
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Yeah, I'm okay. Just really drained. The upshot is, I slept for 12 hours last night when before I was sleeping like 4 hours at the most. So in that regard, it really helped me thinks. XD
 
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sublime085

Member
Did anyone see the latest episode of Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel?

They were discussing/interviewing three sportswriters who transitioned from male to female and the effect it had on their careers and stuff. It was pretty interesting.
 
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water_wendi

Water is not wet!
sublime085 said:
Did anyone see the latest episode of Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel?

They were discussing/interviewing three sportswriters who transitioned from male to female and the effect it had on their careers and stuff. It was pretty interesting.
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Yea i read about that on a blog or something. i dont get HBO so ill have to wait.
 
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NewGamePlus

Member
Oh yeah, I have a GAF account. Hi everybody, I'm back! Back from where, you might ask. Well I'll tell you. Nowhere! I am just a horribly inconsistent person and a terrible internet friend. :(

So, please forgive my undue absence, especially if you were waiting on pins and needles to find out if I actually stabbed myself… with a needle.
Ok, I think I died a little inside after I typed that out, but I'm not going to change it so you can join in on some of my shame.
Well I did. It went really well too, except for the hour of sitting around in the waiting room. Also, I kind of hesitated the first time and just pricked myself with the needle (don't do that), but I just went for it the second time. So yeah, the doctor decided that we should wait two more weeks on the antiandrogens just to make sure I don't have any side-effects with the estradiol. I'll probably talk to him tomorrow or on Monday to get that worked out, and I get to do it all again in a few days.

Anything else new going on that I can't read about by just scrolling up?
 
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Cetra

Member
Found out my grandmothers brother has blabbed to the whole damned family about me being trans. I've no idea how he found out. Family, gotta love it. /sarcasm -.-
 
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Jamie xxoo

Member
Congrats NewGamePlus, you're a braver woman that I am. Just the thought of jabbing myself gives me the heebie-jeebies.

@tehAinsley On the bright side, this takes the pressure off to break the news yourself.

An aunt and cousin just visited out of the blue. I was not ready for that. Wish I had known so that I would have looked better. =( It was the same aunt who spoke to me on the phone the other day and who mistook me for my mom for 5 minutes before I set her straight. She knew I was trans (all my relatives do) but had never seen me in girl mode before.

Nothing was said. I felt awkward. This is going to happen a lot while I am here, I can tell.

Going out shopping with mom again on Monday. Thinking about getting a PS2 - I never owned one and they are just $88 now.

Happy Good Friday from Australia.
 
E

Extollere

Sucks at poetry
Will somebody kindly explain the difference to me between transgendered and transsexual? The two are not the same, correct?
 
C

Cetra

Member
Yeah this is true. It's just kinda infuriating seeing how my grandmother's brother is gay. As such, he should know better than to out someone like that. Just frustrating, really.

Sorry for the family awkwardness. *hug*

If ya need any recommendations on PS2 games, I can make you quite the list! Which reminds me, I picked up Mirror's Edge yesterday. Hoping it's as good as you say it is. ;)

Good Friday, ha! It's my Monday! Work ftl D:!

NGP! Hai! :3 I'll mirror Jamie's sentiment, you're braver than I!
 
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Jamie xxoo

Member
@tehAinsley I find gay guys (especially older ones) are often the *least* understanding. A lot of them seem to think being transgender means you're an attention-seeking drag queen or that you think you're doing it to get to have sex with straight guys.

@Extollere

A transsexual is someone who has a woman's brain and a guy's genetics, or vice versa, and who takes medical steps to correct their hormone make-up and appearance to live their life as the gender their brain tells them they are. The condition is diagnosed by a psychiatrist and treated by doctors, endocrinologists, and plastic surgeons.

Transgender is an umbrella term that includes transsexuals, but which can also refer to anyone with any kind of cross-gender identity. It can include cross-dressers (who do not feel they are women but get a kick out of dressing as women), people who feel they are totally androgynous (neither sex), etc.

Some people like me say "transgender" instead of "transsexual" to avoid having that "sexual" word in the label, which makes people mistakenly think that you change gender for some reason that's got to do with sexual pleasure.

I think I went over this somewhere waaaaaay back in the thread and talked about different subcategories of transgender and everything if you want to go searching for it. I miss the "Search" and "Search This Thread" and "Find Posts By This User" tools. Google's not the same.
 
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NewGamePlus

Member
I'm not that brave, just insane. :p
I just found out today that most of my extended family knows now too, but I gave the approval beforehand. I haven't actually talked to any of them myself yet though, so I wonder how that will go. I hear they're all approving. Ooh, and I also love Mirror's Edge, though I can understand a lot of the complaints.

AkuMifune said:
ensorcellment
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I like this word too. Thanks for helping me to embiggen my vocabulary.
 
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Risette

A Good Citizen
I love Mirror's Edge. I even bought the gamerpic pack for it.. :lol

Need to double dip on the 360 version one of these days, it's pretty cheap now.
 
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lexi

Banned
Truly uncharted territory here, a picture of me where I'm not in a myspace pose or something in front of my Macbook.

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aoi tsuki

Member
i know this is extremely old now, but i discovered this tab among the 50+ i had open, so...

Jamie xxoo said:
I've slept on it, and I think what I was down about last night was that this wonderful, organic, exciting way of meeting someone - just feeling a spark with a stranger and letting it all unfold - is all borked up because I have to bring this deal-breaking fact about myself into the conversation and it just totally throws most guys to be suddenly confronted with it. Looking back I could have just given that guy my mobile and told him over the phone later (and 99.99% most likely have met an awkward silence followed by a rapid "gotta go"). I guess the situation just never occurred before and I wasn't ready.

Anyway he was probably an ex-con serial rapist. I'm better off. ;)
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Personally, i think you do both yourself and the person you're interested in a disservice by not letting them know somehow that you're interested. Sure, the vast majority of guys will not be interested in dating you. But there's always a chance that they will, and even if things don't lead to marriage, at least you've brought to them the reality of TGs beyond whatever they may have seen in porn or on Jerry Springer. Or the simple fact that TGs exist.

i met a wonderful woman that was in a situation which would've been a dealbreaker for 99.99% of potential dates. It just so happened that i was knowledgeable about her situation and didn't mind it. We dated for a few months until i ended it for other reasons, but i'm glad i got to know her.

Maybe i'm being a bit too idealistic here, but i say as long as you feel safe in telling the person, go for it.
 
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NewGamePlus

Member
So, I had my second laser appointment a couple days ago, and now there are definitely small patches where the hair is disappearing. I'm quite excited as my facial hair is really dark and stupid and always noticeable and stupid.

Alfarif said:
eat more fried chicken
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I was just thinking about what I wanted for lunch and my eyes focused in on this. Thank you, I'm going to go find some chicken now.
 
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Shanadeus

Banned
NewGamePlus said:
So, I had my second laser appointment a couple days ago, and now there are definitely small patches where the hair is disappearing. I'm quite excited as my facial hair is really dark and stupid and always noticeable and stupid.
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Facial hair is a bitch, I wouldn't mind lasering off my own and probably would if I ever got the opportunity.

And I think it's great this thread is still alive and kicking, sometimes you just need to be visible for people to take one serious and respect one. So many have rather sad views on people that deviate from the normative gender roles.
 
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Alfarif

This picture? uhh I can explain really!
NewGamePlus said:
So, I had my second laser appointment a couple days ago, and now there are definitely small patches where the hair is disappearing. I'm quite excited as my facial hair is really dark and stupid and always noticeable and stupid.


I was just thinking about what I wanted for lunch and my eyes focused in on this. Thank you, I'm going to go find some chicken now.
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I could use some of that facial hair... mine doesn't do what I want it to do.

I think I'm going to get some chicken too. I'll see you there. Wait, where are we going? :lol
 
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NewGamePlus

Member
Alfarif said:
I could use some of that facial hair... mine doesn't do what I want it to do.
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Short and sparse facial hair? Next you're going to tell me you have small feet and dainty hands.

Brannon said:
Don't be so ubulant.
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I know this is a joke, but I keep seeing ubuntu. Thusly, I read it as, "Don't be such a humanitarian." Either that or, "Don't use Ubuntu so militantly; Mandriva is better anyways..."
 
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Alfarif

This picture? uhh I can explain really!
NewGamePlus said:
Short and sparse facial hair? Next you're going to tell me you have small feet and dainty hands.
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Well... I do... I'm so small and delicate.

No, it's just that where I want my facial hair to grow, it grows somewhat sparse. It sucks.
 
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Jamie xxoo

Member
Shanadeus said:
Facial hair is a bitch, I wouldn't mind lasering off my own and probably would if I ever got the opportunity.
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Lots of guys say this, but if they bothered to try most guys would probably stop after one session because the pain isn't worth getting rid of an inconvenience.

It only hurts for 3 or 4 sessions tho. By the 6th you can barely feel it.
 
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NewGamePlus

Member
Alfarif said:
Well... I do... I'm so small and delicate.
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Hmm, so what next, a vulva?

Jamie xxoo said:
Lots of guys say this, but if they bothered to try most guys would probably stop after one session because the pain isn't worth getting rid of an inconvenience.
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Seriously, it sucks so much. The whole time I'm like, "Oh god, make it stop. It will so be worth it, but why do I hate myself enough to do this." But yeah, worth it. Oh, and like others said, stubble can be sexy. Would you really want to give that up?
 
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lexi

Banned
Laser for me has been really worth it but I feel like I have so much further to go. I hate my facial hair more than anything else about myself. Except maybe my nose. Or the mark below my left eyebrow. Or my apple body shape.
 
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Shanadeus

Banned
NewGamePlus said:
Hmm, so what next, a vulva?


Seriously, it sucks so much. The whole time I'm like, "Oh god, make it stop. It will so be worth it, but why do I hate myself enough to do this." But yeah, worth it. Oh, and like others said, stubble can be sexy. Would you really want to give that up?
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Stubble is sexy so long as you don't kiss someone, my girlfriend has extremely delicate skin and I need to shave constantly either way in order to not leave red marks :lol
 
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NewGamePlus

Member
lexi said:
Laser for me has been really worth it but I feel like I have so much further to go. I hate my facial hair more than anything else about myself. Except maybe my nose. Or the mark below my left eyebrow. Or my apple body shape.
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Really? Well you hide it well since there's no hair visible on your face at all in your pictures. I've had this permanent shadow on my face since I was 13.
 
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Jamie xxoo

Member
Well the good news is the darker the beard shadow the better laser works!

Be thankful you may never need electrolysis for blond/colorless hairs. You think laser hurts? Electrolysis is on a while other level.
 
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Cetra

Member
Yeah... I'll need electro. Pretty sure mine is too light for laser. I mean, I have to let mine go for weeks before anyone notices I haven't shaved. -.-

But hey, no pain no gain, right? RIGHT?! ; ;
 
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NewGamePlus

Member
Actually I do have some red hair mixed into my beard (dark black hair everywhere else), but yeah, I'm definitely hoping it all dies by way of laser.
 
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Cetra

Member
I'll be hoping for that for you as well. 'Cause leik whoa. We shouldn't ALL have to suffer having our faces stabbed over and over.

EDIT: I dunno when you changed it or how I've been missing it but, Jamie... that avatar is awesome. :lol :lol :lol
 
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