Transgeneration!

[prkswllflwr.livejournal.com]

hi everyone!

i'm a new member. i'm scouring the internet for help with a radio interview i'm doing on friday. it's with TJ from the sundance show "transgeneration."

so i was hoping you guys could help. i'm having a hard time thinking of unique questions.

if you could ask TJ from "transgeneration" anything, what would you ask?

i really want to get a diverse number of questions from the people who care, not just from my little head.
also, it will be airing on WVUM (90.5) in coral gables, florida - the voice of the university of miami.

it will stream on www.wvum.org
if there's interest, i can post later on when it will be streaming.

thanks if you guys can help me out!

(x-posted)

Documentary

[jacob22eku.livejournal.com]

What’s up guys? It has been awhile since I have last posted and I have come across a documentary and I was wondering if anyone has ever heard of it or seen it. I want to see it but I was hoping to get second opinion on it.
Director Kate Davis calls the documentary Southern Comfort. Kate Davis' digitally shot documentary chronicles the last year in the life of Robert Eads, a female-to-male transsexual dying of terminal ovarian cancer in the backwoods of rural Georgia. I heard from a friend that this is a great documentary... Here is the link that I found for the documentary for anyone who is interested in reading more about it...
Thanks guys
Jake
http://www.blockbuster.com/catalog/DisplayMoreMovieProductDetails.action?movieID=127147&channel=Movies&subChannel=sub#Cast

Detransition, anyone?

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

I posted this last night after a disastrous meeting at a support group local to Ottawa, Gender Mosaic. I would urge anybody and everybody of a TS bent, i.e. not a dresser, to avoid this poisonous bunch.

*****

I have just had the crappiest evening I have had in a long long time.

This evening was the monthly Gender Mosaic discussion group. For those that don't know, GM is one of the T* support groups in the Ottawa area. Where it was once the only game in town, it has ceased to be as such, and now caters mostly to the part time 'dresser crowd. Tonight, the topic was, in a nutshell, "Do you like who you are?", with a clarification that followed, "Do you like the person that surgery has made (for you post-ops) or will make (for you pre-ops) you become". As it had been a while since I went to one of these, and had to re-up my membership anyway, I decided to go.

Big mistake!

At one point in the discussion, I brought up the point that FTMs were able to blend much better than MTFs, and without my having the chance to clarify that, because it needed much clarification, the partner of one of the better known GM members stuck her head in from the next room and proceeded to tear me down and negate my entire identity, saying that I would never be seen as anything but a man, that I would never be a woman, that she sees me as a man when she sees me walking down the street...you get the picture. In other words, this woman, who has been a part of the Ottawa gender community for eons, thanks to her support of her partner, managed in a five minute lecture to tear me apart COMPLETELY!

Once she shut up and left, I could not continue. I got up and left as quickly as I could and went home completely distraught.

So what's it to be? So much for the support of this so-called support group! I sure as hell didn't need this tonight! If I'm an utter failure as a woman after two years of trying, I might as well detransition. But I already know that doesn't work, so, really, what's the point in continuing at all? I haven't an answer to this at the moment.

Meanwhile, I've unsubscribed from their mailing list and sent notice of my membership cancellation.

A close friend (who's probably reading this at some point), also had a falling out with this bunch a while back, and disconnected herself completely. I can't help but wonder about similarities.

Thanks to all!

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

Thanks to the many messages that people posted after my venting, not to mention a good chat with my twin abbyjanechick, (whom I really wish would start using her account more...), I'm feeling a whole lot better than I was this morning, and certainly last night. There's still a certain boiling anger there, though, which might be festering for a bit.

Question

[radhika1.livejournal.com]

I've been to phsyciatrist and he's still to refer me to a phsycologist for phscyotherapy. He's just said that it's a rare problem and it will take some time to find one who deals in trans stuff. He has prescribed for me anti-depressant medicine which I'm taking for some two weeks. But I read today in a post about people not going on anti-depressant or being better-off with out it for the reason of being dependant on it or whatever. So it came in my mind that is it ok to take it? Is it harmful in long run?

Question for friend

[radhika1.livejournal.com]

I have a friend and he's been to a phsycologist. He's sent him back to his phsyciatrist who had advised him taking BUZON 1 mg tab. He wants to know what is the function of this tablet. And the phsycologist has said that this tablet will start the secretionof male harmones in your body. If anyone has any information about it please share. Thanks.