Making out with someone who doesn't know...

[belleza-mia.livejournal.com]

Hey yall.

So I've passed a lot of time without being hit on by guys. This week though, for the first time since I started college (where I'm perceived as female), a guy hit on me and I gave him my contact info.

So now that I might start dating as a girl, I have to worry about men kissing me and maybe caressing me and feeling a little bit of stubble or trying to put his hands in shirts or on boobs (my boobs are VERY small and I wear breast forms).

So for those of you who have "passed" and who have been in situations like these, what have you done? Did men try feel you up without talking about it/asking first? Have you gotten by without laser/electro without guys noticing?

Ugh, I'm so excited to start dating but I'm really worried about this. Please let me know your experiences.

FUCK

[foreverraining9.livejournal.com]

 

SOOO much is on my mind right now!

Today I have to empty my savings account to pay off the rest of my tuition. This leaves me with about $100. I hate money, not just because I am a communist but also because there are so many things that I want to do with my life but can't right now because I don't have the money.

The first thing that I want to do is go back to Germany and live there. Unfortunately, because of my absense of money, this will not occur for several years, perhaps longer.

The second thing that I want to do is to start taking hormones (testosterone). However, I can not afford to do this. And no, insurance companies do not cover hormones, frankly they don't give a shit about trans issues. As a matter of fact, it has become apparent that nobody cares about these issues (except of course, those who I meet who also deal with these issues). A few more reasons why I can not take hormones right now are: my room mate and my parents. My room mate still does not kno that I am trans. Although I have been around her when my chest was binded (I don't think that she noticed though, she obviously does not stare at my chest on a regular basis.). My room mate might literally shit a brick if I just started going through transition, injecting myself in the thigh on a daily basis, dressing in drag daily, going by the pronouns "he" and "him" and also changing my name to Jordan.  In addition, my parents would probably stop talking to me entirely, hate me for the rest of my life, and be completely imbarassed and ashamed of me for the rest of thier lives. While my parents are very loving, fun, and supportive, I can never bring up two topics around them: 1 my bisexuality, and 2 my transsexuality. These are issues which haunt my life, an eternal gray raincloud over my head; an elephant in the room that I can never talk about or express when I am around them. I must act like an entirely different person when I am with my parents. I wish that my parents would just accept me and love me for who I am. I love my parents more than they will ever know but it pains me so deeply to know that they love not me but some person that I have to pretend to be.

Nice to meet you, I'm Jordan.

In addition, I can no longer afford cigarettes, it sounds stupid, but cigarettes are the only thing that I have to help me reduce stress and forget about things for just few minutes. I smoke on average, 15 cigarettes a day. just five short of a pack.

I don't know what to do.

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[so-la-ragione.livejournal.com]

 hello again!  I've read lots of memories and used a lot of suggestions on this, but nothing has really helped.  

( HE'S BEEN ON T FOR FIVE MONTHS... )

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[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

Howdy, everyone.

It's about this time for the last two years, I start making the rounds for the Transgender Day of Remembrance Webcomics Project, and I've spent the last few days digging up old EMails, searching out new TG comics and generally, rampping up to this years project. My apologies for taking so long to get started this year - August's been a bear.

For those of you who don't know about the project, in a nutshell, we're a group of webcomic artists and authors who put together a remembrance strip for late November. There is always a running theme, but the themes are voluntary (especially if your comic has no TG characters). If you'd like some examples of the 2005 and 2004 entries, you can see previous projects for yourself at the Webcomics DOR site at http://www.dolari.net/dor.

All we ask is that you link to the other comics running images as well, and keep the images up for your normal comic-length. We're aiming at having these displayed on the week of the 20th. After the comics are done, I'd love your permission to keep them on my Day of Remembrance site, at http://www.dolari.net/dor

This year's theme is a little less confrontation than last year's. The theme proposed is a more "This is your brain on drugs" narrative presentation. The character will very matter-of-factly decribe a situation that led to them being killed for being trans or swapped, with the final panel revealing the tombstone of that character (preferably based on someone who has died this year - a listing can be found at http://www.gender.org/remember/day/who.html).

For example, my comic will have Allison relate about a day she had where she was outted and was beaten to death over several panels. Eventually, the last panel will have her walking into the dark with the tombstone prominently displayed.

Again, the themes are voluntary, and if you have an idea you'd like to pursue, or a better idea for a theme that you'd like to present, please do.

Please let me know if you'd like to participate this year by letting me know via EMail. IF you know someone who may be interested, but isn't on this list, by all means, forward it along (especially as real life has kept me fmro researching the newer comics out there).

Thanks again for listening - looking forward to hearing from y'all soon.

ENDA -- the importance of acting now

[liketheark.livejournal.com]

U.S. folks, if you haven't contacted your Representative and gotten all your friends and family to do so as well, then please read on. We're talking national employment nondiscrimination protection for trans folk here! Let's not miss this opportunity to educate folks and move things forward.

(x-posted)

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