Imagine if you will that I want to travel around the world

[khandro.livejournal.com]

Anyone know about traveling outside the country. Because of an error at the DMV in my state, my driver license says F. But my passport does not currently say F, nor does the name match me. If I try to get a new one, I will have to explain the F on my driver license. What do I do about getting a passport?

Now, there is no way that I can get my passport to say F. So what does anyone know about traveling to foriegn countries presenting as a female when my passport says M?

Or am I a virtual prisoner of my own country?

Anyone else heard about this?

[ottermama.livejournal.com]

x-posted to intersexed

One of my friends who knows I'm intersexed just got a job at t-mobile and was telling me of their exceptionally liberal health insurance policy. She mentioned that both my prostate and OB/GYN care would be covered, and that they'd even cover therapy and SRS. This sounds way too good to be true for a US company. I know that t-mobile is owned by a german group, and that many europeans tend to be more open-minded and liberal about this sort of thing, but covering SRS, therapy, HRT, and the whole schebang 100% in one of their US companies? Sounds kinda fishy. Oddly enough, I have a potentially good chance of getting work there due to my past work experience... but with all this talk of super-duper health benefits, I'm wondering if my friend (who is usually spot-on with things like this and very rarely makes such statemens without some research to back them up) just mis-heard something or is smoking something... she says she's checked several times, but I'm just not sure... help?

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[seekingerin.livejournal.com]

I'm a twenty-three year old pre-everything transwoman. Overall, I'd say I'm pretty lucky in very many ways. I suspect I'll eventually be able to pass pretty well; for someone who's lived so long under the effects of male testosterone levels (though I've reason to suspect those levels may be low for a male body), I'd say my body and face and voice are workably feminine. There's one particular area I'm having a lot of trouble with, though: my facial hair. My hair is a very dark brown, almost a black, and my facial hair is thick and dark and difficult to shave and it grows fairly quickly. At the moment permanent removal isn't an option; I suspect I'll try to pursue it when I can, but for now, I'm poor.

Yesterday I bought a full set of makeup, with the intent of going out in public in a few days presenting female for the first time. Unfortunately, I discovered that it doesn't hide my facial hair nearly well enough. It cuts the darkness by about two-thirds, but it's still quite visible. My moustache in particular, but I can still see my entire beard area from some distance back.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there something more I should do? I'm using this makeup guide. On a friend's suggestion (biologically female), I bought Cover Girl makeup. I'm pretty new to shaving with a non-electric razor, and I have cheap disposable razors designed for sensitive skin. Bought them for something like a dollar a dozen. Here are the results of a shave and makeup. Should I shave differently? Should I use some sort of different makeup? Or am I just doomed until I can afford laser or electrolysis?

And what about my plans to go out in a few days? I work in Indianapolis in a very public job; for several reasons, I'm planning to drive down to Bloomington, Indiana, which is a pretty liberal college town that's almost entirely removed from my current circle. Do I go out with the best makeup job I can give myself and hope people think I'm just one of the many unfortunate biological women who has a little bit of facial hair, or do I hold off for a while?