Got a local houseless trans person housed today! 
Sometimes my job not so bad.
Finally, some good fucking news today. 
I'm sorry I'm late 
I didn't see the thread until now.
I'm a pediatrics nurse in a rural area, had my first encounter with a family who insisted they get another nurse because "I made them uncomfortable." :(
In brighter news, my girlfriends bottom surgery is healing really well! I really really wanna play with it but you have to wait sooo long. We have to be chaste sapphics~
It sucks that people would rather have their kid be sick then be treated by a trans person
Also congrats to your gf 💓
still feels weird to basically feel my identity change in real time. like, i'll be reading things about trans women or lesbians like 
for like 6 seconds before it finally clicks that "this affects you personally now, dum dum"
in retrospect i guess i always did want to be a lesbian. damn. the flag has such great colors too 
transphobia
First memory I have of transwomen was when I was like 11 years old or something and I saw someone using the slur "tr---y" somewhere so I looked it up and found a youtube video of a beautiful woman and the comments were all insulting her and telling her she's not a real woman, and all I was thinking of was 
Was sexting this girl whom I knew was a chaser and she told me
and now I feel patheticchaser sext
"Get me pregnant with your girlcock!"
idk what else I expected 
So weird when cis people unironically call it that 😭 Also, the first part of that message is really throwing me off. How is that in anyway cool or hot to say? Fucking yikes
CW trans subreddits being transphobic
Went on r/transtimelines (or whatever it's called), this morning looking for people, idk, that resemble me, didn't really find any but it was still kinda inspiring until...
I scrolled down in the comments on someone asking a question about how estrogen affects facial hair growth, if they could keep their beard on estrogen basically, and there was this whole chain of 4chan-vibes posting being like "if people like you wouldn't keep acting like this, growing a beard just to be quirky and different, then there wouldn't be man in a dress tropes"
It was downvoted a little, but it was multiple people, seemingly trans people, talking like this from slightly different angles. I've thought about keeping some amount of facial hair when I transition, ngl this stung even though I know exactly how self defeating and hateful and shitty the people saying it are and that they're wrong
Redditors are so stupid, I wish we woulf live in a world where women could have cool beards without getting harrased. Would make it easier for trans ppl, and cis women with beard growth. I once saw some artwork of female dwarves (the fantasy kind) with beards and those were some cool looks(with braids and ribbons and stuff), that didn't seem very difficult to actually replicate.
i can't stop getting jealous of literally every girl ever
Still in a decent bit of pain. Not very mobile. Going a little stir crazy, but I’m getting by by watching Critical Role campaign 2.
On a related note, no one has really inquired about my wellbeing since my surgery and it’s giving me a strong case of the feel bads. It really sucks.
As in none of your friends or relatives? That sucks badly 
At least you have much to look forward to when the pain subsides!
Why would I get a haircut to lose like 1.5 years of hair growth right after realizing I'm trans? The haircut I have is so shit too so I'm getting jealous whenever I see someone with good hair now
Being bi rules pretty hard. Also read a survey (like 750 bi respondents) and it looks like 84% of them would date a non-op trans woman which is pretty cool. Like that's way higher than any other group od people and a solid majority. Honestly I've always gravitated towards bi women but bi guys are cool too and can get it. Also, bi people wont judge me for being bi (common problem even today).
This was all set off by me looking up data on trans dating stuff ( 
) but honestly this made me feel pretty good.
At what point does one become a Trans Elder? In a few months, I will have been openly trans for over half my life, but I'm also just a millennial. Do I get any sick powers with it?
It seems like 5-10+ years is when you are given the 'trans elder' serum that that grows you a new section of your brain solely dedicated to deciphering gender 
cw harassment lol
spoiler
Yesterday some freak followed me for like 10 minutes, practically to my doorstep, while repeatedly yelling slurs and throwing random trash at me, and I was too tired to even do much of anything besides walk slightly faster.
Idk, I was wearing baggy pants and a baggy thick as hell sweater, so im not really sure what tipped him off, but what the fuck. Not that anyone deserves that treatment but if I was dressed campy I could sort of understand it. I guess I just have an aura of slur.
anyway this sort of shit happens a lot to me and I go out of my way to dress down / make people more comfortable with me, so I'm not really sure what the fuck is such a giveaway when I just want to run errands and chill. I get why people detransition for reasons like this, I miss being invisible and ignored. I'm happy with myself and all my changes, but other people make it really hard.
need a trans posse to rough fuckers like this up
yo where do I sign up? 
I think from now on i'll gauge my HRT dose by the amount of emotional devastation videos of bottlefed baby badgers make me feel, seems to work about as reliable as the bloodwork at my endocrinologist.
today on shit i wish i could have told myself like 8 years ago:
you can actually enjoy your gender. you can and should like it. you don't have to just accept your AGAB as an unfortunate fact
Honestly it's kinda cute how stir crazy you are over transitioning, you sound so excited
Yet another shitty week.
CW: Transphobia at work again, basically experience bigotry for a living 
spoiler
So work's not the greatest in general, had some weeb clock me and go full Kevin and say some fucked up transphobic shit, that sucked, at least the lady with him looked shocked by his behavior.
Then other things aren't going so well, the fridge is failing, explains a lot of my food poisoning lately. I managed to get money for kidney medicine buying me another few months, but if they process my claim for healthcare its probably going to take months to get things covered, if at all. When I called and finally got through to someone and speaking with others undergoing similar issues with the mass healthcare boot it sounds like I'm better off waiting for the red giant stage of the sun than waiting for coverage.
Labs for hrt/kidney are way out of my budget and better employment around here is frankly impossible. To top all the shit off lately someone's been mass stealing my bills out of my mail. I had my identity stolen last year, this is giving me those vibes.
Only thing going well is I'm at least doing some voice practice every day.
cw transphobia
To be honest, seeing the new law passed in Tennessee has me both scared and really depressed. I very recently decided to start using some more location-based socmed to find queer people near me to hang out with irl because I've been very isolated for over a year now. Now I'm scared of the security of doing that. Maybe I should just recede back into my hole, only deeper this time because now almost all of social media is a minefield. I feel bad because I'm in a relatively safer state and yet I'm miserable.
spoiler
I've been really feeling this too. It's so fucked up and scary. I hate being a scapegoat for this awful world.
Just minding my business and people want me dead
My wife has always been kind of a tomboy, but lately she's been femming it up, so she's been asking me advice about putting together outfits, and it feels very gender affirming lol
silver lining of not being on hrt is that it makes moving much easier since i've still got my unearned testosterone strength, and i'll probably still have when i finally move out on my own for the first time. after that i'm kinda fucked, as is the rest of my family (my dad is getting older and my brother is unreliable/has health issues)
This feels really weird after so many years of having the egg mindset of wishing I was a cis woman, but refusing to be a trans woman, but now I'm honestly not sure if I'd prefer to have been born cis or not. It feels confusing, but probably a good sign in terms of self-acceptance?
It could be a step in the right direction. Wanting to be cis is a dead end that we need to abandon at some point, true self acceptance is only possible when we embrace transness and all its contradictions, and that's a pretty long process. Especially early on when there's still so much to endure it can seem almost impossible. But even moving from "i wish i was cis" to "i wish i would pass better and i wish i was prettier" is an improvement, because these are goals you can actually work on to at least some degree.
I'd pick trans every day 
down with cis
up with sis!
THE SPINACH WAS ACTUALLY JUST CODE/STANDIN FOR TESTOSTERONE. POPEYE IS A TRANS MAN
All the trans catpeople are gone nowadays, it’s all puppypeople this bunnypeople that, what happened :,(((
All the trans catpeople are gone nowadays, it’s all puppypeople this bunnypeople that, what happened?
Hope everyone’s week is going well. I’m incapable of really checking in a lot right now, but I hope to be back soon. Love all you folks. Always be sure to take care of yourselves.
New account. Anyone recognize me?
hint
Also peep the avi
taping a little piece of paper saying "no boys allowed" with the y backwards to my door
i keep thinking about it and like, i was never a boy, but i also have only recently been a girl. the more i think about it, the more i realize that i never really had a gender until like a month ago, and that as a child i was basically agender but identified as a cis man because that's just what society does to AMAB people. being a girl is a choice for me actually, and one that i needed to be truly emotionally ready to make
i actually feel deep empathy for myself as a child now and i can't stop crying about it
I changed my pronouns. Im reevaluating my gender.
When even so called "allies" demonstrate they can't be bothered to educate themselves before talking shit, it makes it difficult for me to not want to declare war on cis people.
"well ur birth certificate says you're male" MY BIRTH CERTIFICATE SAYS I WEIGH NINE POUNDS
Interesting things happening with me at work lately concerning voice and gender presentation
story
So I'm a teacher.
Recently, in my classes, I for some reason got the guts to start practicing some of my voice training techniques in front of my class. I tried to keep my pitch the same while lowering the weight of my voice. It comes out very clear and even, so it kind of just sounds like teacher voice anyway. It was also more of a challenge to maintain lightness while projecting to a whole class. Much more helpful than mumbling stuff out alone in my apartment. I think it went well.
Coincidentally, this week I'm also doing some work that requires me to record my voice. I heard my voice played back and was like, "oh my god, I need to do more voice training" lol. I was just doing my regular voice, though. Someone here recommended that people record themselves while they're voice training. My advice? DO IT. It's uncomfortable, but I guarantee you it will change your perspective on how you sound and how you're improving.
I've also been testing the waters just imagining what it would be like if I were doing my job while presenting femme. It's interesting the brainworms that come up. My general feeling is, "wow, it would be really hard to be authoritative if I were femme. These students wouldn't take me seriously." I had to reprimand some students the other day, and it's so much easier when I can just be stern and masculine and scare them lol.
Anyway, it's just a window into what women have always had to deal with in the workplace despite the fact most teachers are women.
Megathreads continue to pop off!!!
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honestly i don't even think having facial hair is bad, persay, but I really like the idea of HRT+Electrolysis taking it all off because then i would just never have to bother shaving again which sounds nice
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