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[tckma.livejournal.com]

Hi there...

I'm an almost 27-year-old, biologically male, decidedly non-op m2f, and decidedly in the closet -- by that I mean I only dress in the privacy of my own home. The few people who have seen me en femme have been very, VERY close friends, or dating me at the time. I find that I am attracted to biological females only. I have no desire for an operation -- in high school and early college I frequented some USENET groups that pushed SRS hard, and it made me uncomfortable because I knew that was not what I wanted.

I live in central Massachusetts, about an hour west of Boston and 15 minutes east of Worcester.

I remember being like this since I was very young. Once I lived alone (age 21), it was easier to dress up, and I became more comfortable. At 23 I was romantically involved with a woman who made me extremely comfortable with this aspect of myself... unfortunately it turned out that while she put on a good show she wasn't really comfortable. When I was in grad school (24), I looked for LJ support communities, found a few, and joined, but later left when they turned out to be just huge photo shoots. Now I'm back looking, found this community and a few others different from the ones I was on previously. I'm looking for support and some like-minded people... hopefully a few who live in my area and/or are around my age whom I can become friends with.

Hopefully I can get some help, and finally figure out who I really am, as I have been struggling with this for years and years.

But for now, this tired girl is going to sleep.

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[allybarlow.livejournal.com]

Hi,

I'm currently an undergrad at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. I've recently been struck with that sudden and hard-hitting fear of, "What the hell am I going to do when I graduate?" I hadn't considered law school very seriously because I assumed that, if I were practicing law, I'd either be enormously bored or feel morally remiss. Just a few days ago, it occurred to me that there's a possibility of devoting my life to activism via law. So now, I'm trying to find the law school that would most prepare me to represent glbtq clients in various cases (for example, adoption for gay couples or transgender/transsexual rights, etc).

Does anyone have any suggestions with respect to appropriate law programs or resources I should investigate? Thanks in advance for any advice.

Best,
Ally

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[peaceofpie.livejournal.com]

Hi folks! I posted a couple weeks ago about a project I am doing for a course called Sexual Violence in Societal Context on violence against transgender people. The project is going really well...we are presenting it on Thursday, and we're feeling very positive about the impact it will have at Earlham College, which is where I'm taking the course.

We've got most of the fact-based stuff down pretty solidly, and what we're looking for now is representations of the impact that violence has on transgender people and those who love transgender people. It would be really valuable to our project to be able to present poems, song lyrics, or other means of artistic expression that show how people feel about transphobic violence. We will NOT be publishing the submissions or making them available for use by anyone other than ourselves; in other words, we're just going to show/read them to people, but we won't be making copies of them and distributing them in any way without the express permission of their authors. I'm putting this call out in this way because I know there's a lot of great poetry/art out there, and I want to make sure that I'm only using material if the author knows about it and is okay with that.

So, if you have written poetry/lyrics or have photos of artwork that you would be okay with my sharing with the Earlham community, for the purpose of connecting the reality of human experience to the facts of transgender violence in a way that folks who see our project will be able to relate to, that would be really awesome and valuable. I'll be using some of my own poetry for this, too, and I'll definitely share my work with you all, too. Thank you SO much.

If you could email me at peaceofpie@livejournal.com or greenda1@earlham.edu, that would be great. Please send stuff to me by Tuesday, Nov. 2nd, as we're presenting the project on the 4th. Feel free to cross-post this anywhere that it hasn't already been posted, on Livejournal or elsewhere.

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[mistresscayenne.livejournal.com]

What would you think of Bullwickle being TS MTF and Natasha Being FTM? Wouldn't they make THE pair!!!