A little help needed, please

[anne78.livejournal.com]

Following some initial success with my website to help my fiancee lisanys, I have decided that it would be nice to set up a cafepress.com shop to help things along.

However, I'm not a designer or artist (I don't even own PhotoShop!). So I am wondering if there a designer or artist who would be willing to offer a small amount of their time to design some artwork for the merchendise?

If you are willing to help please comment here or contact me by email.

Thank you very much in advance.

this is so hard to do!

[pkbarbiedoll.livejournal.com]

I'm writing The Letter to my fundamentalist Christian mother. Wording things in such a way that doesn't cause her to recoil from shock is sooo difficult. This is something I've needed to do for years now, but never found courage to do. I'm not sure I have the courage right now. I love her so very much despite our spiritual differences but I feel like I am writing my own ticket of disownment. I've hidden this from her for so long. She's going to disagree and will try and set me back on her idea of the 'right track' for me. I feel like whatever I write will be dismissed entirely.

Has anyone else here come out to fundy parents, as an adult?

Friends and Loved Ones. -- A Thank You to Those of You Who Browse this Community

[girlabomination.livejournal.com]

My baby and I are now girlfriends -- officially. In case I hadn't mentioned it before here, I am lesbian. This recent change in our relationship occured this weekend. Since then she's really come to show me how much of a beautiful and devoted person she is.

She called me today on her lunch break telling me about how she overheard co-workers talking about a transsexual client in a very non-positive light. Apparently comments were like "Gross... how could a person ever love someone like that? OMG, if someone ever told me they were like that I'd just be so gone.." She said she had to swallow her anger to maintain appearances, but she could have easily run out of the office in tears. No less, in spite of the feelings inside her she gently tried to educate them as to what it actually means to be TG/TS but to no avail. She did however continually correct them when they said "he" rather than "she."

I'm so touched...

She doesn't know the half of her strength; I wonder if dating me will be harder on her (due to other people's comments) than me. After all, while I live as myself, I will experience what hostility will come regardless. People will whisper what they will behind closed doors, it will happen. It is a fact of my life until I have grown into a woman who is truly 'passable' as her gender. She however doesn't have to deal with this. She has a choice, the comments hurt her, and yet she chooses to stay with me rather than letting go.

I would just like to say thank you to her, and all the other beautiful people out there who have the passion and fortitude to love and cherish people like us.

Challenge the binary.

Not to be a whiner but...

[girlabomination.livejournal.com]

Does anyone else have problems viewing the new layout of this community? the menu bar is very long, and is next to empty purple space on my machine, then the actual entries are very far down on the page and formatted kinda wonkily.

If it's just something with my computer settings uhmmm oops, sorry cary on. If not uhmmm.. Just thought I'd let the community moderators know that the new layout is difficult to view and navigate. o.o

o dear

[morbid-thoughs.livejournal.com]

well to day was the 2nd day of my 2nd week back to college. i am rather enjoying it. its been 5 years sence high school. and i have been living full time for 3 years in nov. Well over the summer i desided to go back to school. great i thought all the people i went to high school with will be out of college and i should be fine. wrong to day was my 2nd time going to my phyco class. lol anywho well to day this girl stiting be hind me called me by my old name. I just sat there and did not turn then she ask whats your name. and touch my sholder. my cusin becky is in this class with me and i look over to her and then turned around. i reconized the girl but i did not know her name. she said whats your name. i look her right in the eyes and said Jaimie Borden , nice to meet you and yours. I was like going in to a panic attack but i held it together. with a straigt face. i did not hear her say her name. any who so i turned around. then the giggleing stated and i look over at becky and she was in like shock her self that i had played it off so well. hehe then a few mihns later she ask me where did u go to high school. well i was not about to say southern nash high. which i did not graduate from there. I got my ged in KC MO. so i looked her right back in the eyes and said North KC high. so i turned back around and looked at becky she was sittin there and she wrote me a note on my note book. She dont want the gay mafia on her ass. i smiled to her. its a family thing half the folks in our family are gay or bi. i am the special on thats TS. any who so out gay side of the family is the gay mafia. hehe just a family joke. its a hard thing to be confrunted and play it off like that person is wrong let me tall ya. i know i am not the first and i know i will not be the last in that situation. so good luck to ya hunnys bc u will need it.
hugs and love Jaimie B

A little more help please

[anne78.livejournal.com]

I am looking at put together a press release regarding http://www.helpmyfiancee.com/ to send to the GLBT press as well as local and national main stream press in the US and UK.

However (despite the content of the site itself) I am not much of a writer and have no idea how to write an effective press release. Is there any reader that can write and preferably has previous press release experiance, or know someone that has, and is willing to help out?

If you can and are able to help please email me.

Thanks again in advance for your help.

Cross dressing children

[cherade9.livejournal.com]

Hi! This is my first post to the community and I don't quite know what to say. I'm not trans myself, but am Poly/Bi and have several trans and tranny friends.

I've actually joined because of my son. He's just about to turn 6 and he's asked me and his step dad if we will buy him some girls clothes. He's been growing his hair since he was 3 and he has long white blonde hair. He's liked to wear tights and dress up in my clothes, wear make up a little and stuff for the past year or two, but thats a fairly normal part of childrens development. This seems to be going on a bit longer and getting more involved than that.

I really don't mind if he is TS/TV at all, I just want him to be happy. I'm really happy and proud of him for talking to us about it. He was a little worried about talking to his step dad about it, we've only been living together as a family for a year, but he is fine about it too. They had a chat about how my son feels about it and we've all decided we will sit down with a catalogue of kids clothes and see what things he wants us to get.

I'm just wondering how old other people were when they first wanted to wear girls clothes? I know that the age it starts varies an awful lot amongst different people, and of course that TS/TV is a *hugely* wide spread field of different experiences and opinions. I just feel like I'm floundering and I'd love to have anyone elses ideas and suggestions as to how to talk to him about this. he's still little and finds it hard to fully express what he's feeling about things, but I want him to be comfortable with his body and who is is, both now and in the future.

Thanks for reading
Liz