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[xeddieizzardx.livejournal.com]

Hey Guys!

I'm going shopping with a MTF friend tomorrow; I'm going to buy men's underwear and socks while she's nervous about buying girly attire as well as a prom dress.
Have any of you any tips/words/experiences that will help us overcome our fear of shopping for these things as we're both Pre-Op?

I mean, we're going to be in Marks & Spencer's who [I don't know if you knew this] are trained to deal with TG/TS customers.

P.S. Are there any UK MTF's about 'cause my mate really needs some good places to get a Prom dress from?

Recent pics....

[hottieingoth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I am a bit shy, but I felt that I ought to post more recent pics of myself up here. hehehe

The icon I usually have up there is a 10 yr old pic that I scanned lol

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So there they are...hehehe

Reposted to my journal too

LOTZ O LUV **MUAH**

LOL

Wikipedia to delete DOR Webcomics page

[soltice.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I'm incensed. Wikipedia apparently wants to delete the stub on The Day of Rememberence Webcomics project. There's some grounds that this is a vendetta against Jenn Dolari (artist of Closetspace and A Wish for Wings) based on previous articles that were nominated for deletion. Not only do I find this petty, but I think this an example of academic laziness at best. They're primary grounds for deletion are lack of notability, and lack of third party coverage.

As my Cultural Anthropology professor taught me, the one way to smash an academic's opinion is to drown them in hard evidence. The nominators for deletion did little more than to conduct a google search to find entries to the DOR Webcomics project. Given the fact the entries were image based, with filenames limited to dates and no adjoining text, any search engine would be ineffective.

How you can help
Because I have submitted entries to the project, I do not qualify as a third party. What we need to do is to go through Jenn's archive page of DOR entries. We need to match these up with the original pages on the contributing artist's site. Then, you can post the links -- or just your comments! -- at the Deletion page.

Thanks!

Nursing

[seekingerin.livejournal.com]

So. I'm at a bit of a crossroads in my life. Have been at a crossroads since I graduated from college a couple of years ago. It's becoming clear to me that my literature degree isn't quite going to cut it for finding a job. Methinks I'm going to need to go back to school if I want to make any sort of real living. So I've been giving a lot of thought lately to what I want to do with the rest of my life (in terms of a career, of course, not transitioning). I've had some rather surprising possibilities come to the forefront, and right now there's one dark horse candidate that's making a surprisingly strong showing: nursing.

To be honest, I never gave much thought to the possiblity of being a nurse until, say, Novemberish, but it's looking more and more attractive to me. Pays decently, there's a lot of demand and probably a decent amount of job security, and--most important to me--it would give me a chance to help people. I've been looking into it, and I have a few places I can go to find answers to my questions about nursing. There's one important question, though, that I'm probably going to get answered here.

Does anyone have any idea how good an industry nursing is for transfolk? Is it a good field for transitioning? Is anyone out there a nurse? Anyone know a trans nurse? Even a cisgendered nurse?

I can honestly see it going either way. On the one hand, nurses are in high demand, and it would seem that the medical community would be more knowledgeable, and perhaps more accepting, of transfolk. It would be good to have close access to doctors and medical facilities, too, since transition comes with so many medical risks. On the other hand, it would mean dealing closely with the public, and I can imagine many people in the medical community being a bit dogmatic about transsexualism.