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[sammie-grrl.livejournal.com]

I just took my first steps outside un-chaperoned by my wife or using halloween as an umbrella excuse. I just walked to my car, got in, drove around town, came home, walked around the neighborhood and went in. all by myself. I'm pleased with myself! maybe i'll do more once i figure out how to mask my chin/jawline, get a decent wig, and figure out how to get good cleavage. OK, so the last one's a vanity thing. but still! anyone had experience with those diva cleavage creator bra things? Any makeup tips or anything for masking feminizing a square/masculine jaw? I figured out one trick... open my jaw about an inch and keep my lips closed while keeping relaxed. makes my lips look thicker and less wide. also makes my jaw look a bit less square. is there anything that can be done about a butt-chin?

something i noticed

[sammie-grrl.livejournal.com]

Is it just me or are there lots of Linux/BSD/OSS/tech/science people here? kind of makes me feel giddy ;)

anyways, does anyone else feel some weird 'separation anxiety' when not dressed up? or am i just weird?
at times, when i was younger, even now sometimes, right after i wake up and get in the shower (sometimes when driving), i consciously catch odd 'subconscious conversations'. Am I just wiggin'? or is there something to it. read something about a weak bond in the corpus callosum causing odd dual processing like that. not conversations, but... only happens right after i wake up or while driving by myself... sort of when i'm zombified

Yay for Comcast

[velvetlament.livejournal.com]

I was looking through all of the On Demand options that Comcast offers, and under 'Free Movies' there's a Sundance Channel section. So I clicked it and all 6 Transgeneration episodes are on it for free viewing. Yay !!

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[sammie-grrl.livejournal.com]

when you go on hormones, how much shrinkage is there? any change in sensitivity? obviously, voice changes and fat burns off from some places and shows up in others and body hair becomes thinner. what else happens? do nipples/areola grow? how long does it take to half/max change? reversible? how much?

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[ahiru-duck.livejournal.com]

Hi. I never actually posted in this comm but I been a part of it for a while now. And I am here with a question. Does anyone remember that online article about trans-gender/sexuals being banned from getting passports or something like that? It was a while ago but doesn't anyone know where that came from? I read a couple months ago from this comm.

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[radhika1.livejournal.com]

Hello ! I am from India and a new entrant to transgender communtiy just knowing it recently. It is here that my friend suggested that you'll get to know a lot of people. Earlier to the realisation I was definately feeling like a boy, but after I have known about this thing somehow I have found my feeling to be fading. All my life I was craving to be a boy. Maybe its because I have known that I am a trans 'boy' myself. I am just indecisive about being a boy or a girl inside. Are there any more people figuring that out or those who have figured out already?

Trans images in advertising

[publictrans.livejournal.com]

I came upon this site today that is a repository of GLBT images in advertising. It's called the Commercial Closet. It's got all sorts of good positive images of gay and lesbian people, and a large number of negative ones too.

But the trans images are pitifully negative. Almost all of them have the same central conceit: "Surprise! She's a man!" In addition, FTMs are completely invisible.

But every single ad? I mean, come on! The site's maintainers seem to be deluged enough by these negative images to relax their standards. Each ad is rated as a "+", "=", or "-". i.e. a positive, neutral, or negative portrayl of being GLBT. Does "If Clothestime can make Mark look this good, imagine what we can do for a real woman." seem neutral to you?

Of course, this raises the question: what would we consider a good trans image in advertising? For those in stealth, no image is probably good image. Maybe showing genderqueer people in media? People obviously gender-variant? Mid-transition?

I don't know, but here is the one good ad I found... just so you don't get too aggravated.