The Saga of Elaine

[llieno.livejournal.com]

In April last year, I tried coming out to my parents. They used some fuzzy logic against me, and I ended up believeing them and becoming intensely depressed. 17 months later, and I'm about to try again...

( Second Time Lucky? )

I hope this works. I really do.

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[cixel.livejournal.com]

ok i have a question. i've been battleing the feminine feelings of gender dysphoria my whole life which im sure is a pretty typical story around here. i asking a teacher in preschool to help me put on a dress. i cross dressed in my teenage years as well, felt guilty and threw it all away. the thing is im a fairly attractive guy and perhaps if i was 14 again and knew what i was i would have undergone the transformation but im not going to now at 26.

i guess you could call me a low intensity transsexual, my dysphoria fluxuates on a daily to weekly basis, ill feel feminine and then masculine and then inbetween etc. im wondering how much of it may be due to a hormonal imbalance. i had the bitchtits thing when i was a teenager which makes me wonder how linked the feeling is to hormones.

now what im asking is bound to make some people upset with me. is there anything i could take hormone wise such as testoserone supplements to shift me more towards the masculine side? as of this moment i can feel myself more towards the masculine side of things but just yesterday i was feeling very feminine and shaved my arms much to the dismay of my girlfriend.

i love sunning myself and i really want to shave my legs. those are the things id like to indulge in as well as collect every hello kitty thing under the sun. i dont want to give up how good i look as a guy to get stuck in a middle ground or be upset when im feeling strongly masculine.

suggestions?

*waves*

[pacificnic.livejournal.com]

Hello, I'm a newb. I'm hoping you guys can help me by answering some questions. I have some transgender friends, one FTM and one MTF. Both are in various stages of transformation. While I know what they've gone through, I don't know where to start getting help for myself.
My sex is female, my gender is neutral. I think I would be a lot happier if my sex could be male or neutral. I believe gender is entirely determined by society. I constantly feel the pressure of misogyny. I identify as neutral because I don't want to be put in a box and have people say, "You're a girl, therefore x must apply to you." I think if my sex was male I would feel a lot less looked down on, however I know the people around me could not continue to love me if I got a sex change. I think I've summed it up to this: if I could look relatively androgynous, and get my uterus removed, I think I could be happy. I guess I'm here to ask if that's a reasonable goal. Has anyone else experienced this? Anybody else here feel gender neutral? I guess I just need some hope that this can happen, because as far as I can tell from a birth control perspective, no doctor would be willing to sterilize me until I was 40 and had three kids, let alone have a major surgery involving the removal of my uterus. Thanks for reading.

Electrolysis

[flawlessnight.livejournal.com]

Hi there. I'm (pretty sure I'm) MTF, and I'm pre-everything. I live in Portland, Oregan, and I'm thinking about electrolysis or laser hair removal. Anyone know any good, reliable, cheap hair removal places? I'm a college student with a few hundred dollars a month discretionary money - is this enough? How often do I need to make appointments, and how long will they be?

Also, electrolysis or laser? I've heard electrolysis is more permanent, but more expensive. I'm a brunette, so laser would be relatively effective. But how effective is that?