Being Trans/Genderqueer Online

[neverireven.livejournal.com]

Hi All,

I'm doing a presentation for my Queer Theory class about Trans and Genderqueer youth community on the Internet. I'd really love to have some quotes from actual kids about the role that online community plays in their life, and how its helped them with or affected their self-image, self-confidence, sexuality, gender identity, etc.

If anyone has a free moment, would you mind just leaving me a comment here about what being able to find sexuality and gender related information and talk to other Trans, Queer, and/or Genderqueer people online means to you? Or if you're older than about 30, what it meant to you when you were younger - or maybe how your life was different because you didn't have that resource?

I'd really appreciate anyone's help, and of course I'll keep everyone's names and journals confidential if I quote you in the presentation.

Thankyou so much! :)

[I'm crossposting this to a couple of communities, so sorry if you got it twice.]

Well...

[wildtigress.livejournal.com]

I'm a little confused on what to do, folks. My sister knows about my little secret, about who I am, and I just have this fear that she will keep trying to tell my Mom, who is homophobic and well......hates that sort of thing. My mom is in denial, cause she found out about it when I was 11 but basically treated it as a phase and thinks I've outgrown it.

All Thanksgiving day she kept saying Juanita rather than my name, kept saying certain things and phrases that made my Mom just look at me adn ask "What does she mean?" that evening we got in a HUGE fight about how I look, specifically how I keep my nails long and about my hair, and I'm just so worried that Mom's going to find out that it wasn't a phase and I'm still transgendered. I don't really know what to do, and I've tried reasoning with my sister but its like talking to an evil brick wall. v_v; Any suggestions?