Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Trans 101: Lesson 1

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How to respond to someone coming out as trans* to you.

I am both hesitant and eager to write this. Guaranteed, someone will have something to say about what I say here. But I sincerely hope my intended audience - friends on Fbook and readers of my blog who are wanting info - will appreciate this.

But before I start anything, I've decided I'm going to go for much shorter blog posts than I would have in the past. So my Trans 101 is going to be broken up in lessons for you that are bite size chunks of information you can get in five to ten minutes of your time - verse, the posts of the past that can take over an hour to read.

To start this off I'm going to give you the most basic thing to know about us transgender people: What you immediately say if someone trusts you and comes out to you as transgender. After this lesson will be more detailed information, but this is the bare minimum to know, and the bare minimum respect we as humans should have.

Thursday, August 30, 2012

4.5 months

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Four and a half months on female hormones, and life has never been better for me mentally and emotionally.  Physically, yea, I wish I was finished, but one doesn't change that fast. I am very happy I started off on some of the highest doses possible, because while I am trans and amidst transitioning, I rather this all be behind me.

Are we there yet Mommy Universe?


This post is an update about where I'm at in my transition and how things are going with the world around me.


Friday, August 10, 2012

Hello Facebook friends!

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Okay, so this is a quick post for my facebook friends.  Many of you have already seen this blog, but now I'm officially linking it back to my real person.  That said, I still don't want my old name or full name published here.  Possibly in the future I will do this, but not for now.



facebook, version 0.01 of socially connecting in the digital future.
Who has a Beta invite to share with me for the next expansion?

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Two Weeks

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It has been two weeks now that I've been on all the medi that I'm using to change my sex.  For a week and a half I've known clarity like I've never known before: to focus before meant I had to be really driven to do it, now I can finish anything I set out to do; I have dreamed of this piece of mind all my life, and I have consciously known equally as long that I would have to embrace this change to achieve that state of mind.

I'd never go back now.  Emotionally I'm infinitely more stable; it is humorous when people ask, "do you cry more?"  I have to respond, actually no, and far from it.  The depression before that would make me think, "life sucks, don't let me wake up tomorrow please," is unbelievably, totally gone.  I feel a void almost, a void of my 'issues.'  It is amazing, because on some other plane I can see this, and I can see me with intense clarity now.

It's time; I'm breaking out of the mold I was encased in.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Yay!!! HRT!!!!

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As the title says, I'm now on HRT!!!  Yes!  That means, hormone replacement therapy. Goodbye miserable male hormones, hello to the better-for-me female hormones!!


This pic adequately conveys how I feel!

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Directions, Vectors gone Rogue Tensors

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Ducking, dodging, charging, slashing, dashing, running, forgetting what's behind me...



Kanazuki: For some who sit and watch the film, misery will be waiting for them the instant they go back to reality. You're willing to accept responsibility for depriving these people of their dreams?

Major: No, I'm not. But dreams are meaningful when you work toward them in the real world. If you merely live within the dreams of other people it's no different from being dead.

Kanazuki: You're a realist.

Major: If a romantic escapes from reality, then yes.

Kanazuki: A strong girl you are. If the reality you believe in ever comes about, give me a call.  When it happens, that's the time we'll leave this theatre.  

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Progress!

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Hi there!  I'm so busy lately!  I have two thirds of Dark Years - Tres done; this post is, again, rough for me.  I thought I'd be able to talk about things like I wanted to, but, it is proving to be harder than I thought to write these things.  The post on my feelings in pre-transtion and denial is almost done too.

So, let me see, where to start this update...  I should be on hormones within a month, or around there!  Yes! My mind shall know peace, it shall.


Someday, I will own this gown, and I'll dance in it all night long at a ball.

From /r/fashion I found this gorgeous gown from winter 1950.
I found an awesome fashion blog at
The Fashion Historian


Thursday, March 8, 2012

Update: International Women's Day + ?

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Hi there!

I know, I've been a stranger for a few days. 

It appears my E-day might be soon!!!!
Yay!!! <3<3<3

I'm not giving out details yet, but I just might have found the right place to go for informed consent hormone replacement therapy – I told you I'm not trying to support the gatekeepers; despite how old school, cookie-cutter my story would seem to them. To be fair, even I would have had to lie back in the day, and I would have had to say I wanted to be with men, i.e. that I was straight – that's not going to happen, because I'm going to be one 

hell of a queer  

femme lovin' femme

One of my most favorite pictures of a lesbian couple!!!
Curtsey of:
Fuck Yeah Lipstick Lesbians!


Saturday, March 3, 2012

Update: Similarities to Sisyphus

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Oh my.

Where am I?

Things get better but slowly.
How to be in the here and now?

I know,
I'll write!

Here I go again, pushing that damn rock back up to the top.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Informed Consent Clinics

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I just read a good article about informed consent clinics.  This is a really good read for cisgender people, because it breaks down quickly the positive direction the trans* community is heading.  A direction that both cis and trans people can get behind for an improvement in transgender people's lives.

This is how the trans* community feels about getting basic medical rights;
like we're dragging a dumb ass to water.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Kittens and the Decree

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edit: please consider subscribing to my twitter - on the right side of my blog, FOLLOW ME please.  I will be rolling out a couple more blogs this week, and I will be using twitter extensively to get myself out there. I also made an update the other day, check it out please.

If you know me in “real life”, then you know one thing about me for sure. Everyone knows this about me: literally, everyone. It is a bold statement that I always make. I used to declare this as soon as I could in any new relationship, and I meant it. I would reaffirm it if you tested it or questioned it. But first...

Kittens

I love kittens!! When did I see my first kittens? It was before kindergarten for sure; I know that much. It is one of the earliest memories I can remember. It is a beautiful memory; it is a strong memory; it is a truly majestic memory; it is what heaven like dreams are made of.  I feel very blessed that this is one of my first memories.

The mother cat, that unfortunately I can't remember her name had a shiny, silverish coat, and her wavy, brown stripes were sharp and alive – just as she was. She had an amazing litter. I can't remember how many: so, so many.



Sunday, February 26, 2012

Update - Feb, 26th 2012

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Hello Readers!

Here is a quick update on everything. But first, I'd like to say to you, for reading my blog and story

Thank You!

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Dark Years - Duae

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If I may, I would like to suggest to you, a method of reading this post.  I spent a fair amount of time designing this post, with this in mind.

When you get to a video, please don't continue reading, but instead, please take in the message the video is giving you.  I designed it so that the messages are better delivered, if you pause for the videos, before continuing on.


Overall, I have spent close to 25 hours this past week writing this.  I hope that you will be able to take something meaningful away from it.

I will tell you the truth, but are you sure you really want to know the truth?

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Dark Years - Una

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I wonder how many attempts at writing this I'm on? I don't know, I'll have to figure that out when I'm finished. I use Linux, and I have a dozen or so desktops that I can shuffle between. When I scrap a work, I just minimize it and move on. This one is rough. I knew it would be. It will be one of the roughest posts I may ever write. The last post was tough, but this one burns the cake.

Edit: After having finished this post, looking back it won't be hard for you to read per se, but for me I had to face things that I've lied to myself about for a long time. (~15 yrs)  Not all of it is in here, but writing these posts with the goal of finding the truth of my past, has made me realize I'd actually have to face-off 1v1 with
me. This post has made me realize the depths of the battle I was in with myself to hide the truth from myself. The part of this post addressing these things at the end is short, but last week was the first time I uncovered my own lies.  Doing so left me, multiply times, crumpled over in tears, as I acknowledged my own monstrosity. 
Try finding a non-hyper sexualized image of women involved with Tech.
That might have been more difficult than some PDE's I've solved before.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Clocked Round 2 - VA Beach TKO

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For this post I am exploring more avenues of information delivery to your neural matter.  I have included youtube videos, and I ask that while reading this you please take the time to watch them, and enjoy how I feel they add to the canvas. Please?

So this post is one of the most personal I may ever write.  This is unpleasant for me to think about.  Maybe not so much for you the reader, as these actions and events aren't yours, but they are mine. I had an opportunity to embrace myself and accept myself once.  It was the year 1997 when all this goes down.  I was 19 then. The fall out of my choices would dictate firmly the next decade and a half of my life.

The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
By far, one of the best poems I have ever had the pleasure of reading.

Friday, February 3, 2012

Clocked Round 1 - Chicago Style

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Reddit's Trans* Community lost one of our own.  I'm very sorry to hear this.

RIP Cora
aka Kaiosyne on reddit.  You will be missed and not forgotten. It hurts so much to see this happen to a human being.  I don't know her story or what happened. All I know from her posts was that it was rough for her.  It hurts so much to read these painful stories in the news about hate and ignorance, and then watch the very real consequences on real lives.  I may let on that I'm a tough bitch, and most days I am.  I'd be lying through my teeth though, if I said it wasn't rough for me too, but in comparison to so many trans people, I'm living like a Queen. I only hope someday, I can find a way, to have a position in life that is powerful enough to help others. For the time being, I ask for forgiveness, because it is already too hard to just help myself.

There were two major incidence in the Navy where I was actually clocked for being trans while still in denial. But before I go into the first of those, I'd like to announce some of my near future blogging plans.

"If you don't have a righteous objective, eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason, the right result awaits.”
― Chin-Ning Chu, The Art of War for Women

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Hard Knocks

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Most days I aspire to be a gay version of Taylor.

Where have you been?
Getting up, life knocked me down, again.

Are you okay?
I am. I am no stranger to hard knocks.

What happened?
Life. Paths closed, new ones opened.

What now?
I keep fighting, and keep on towards my dreams.

Life is constantly teaching me just how not smart I am.
But I am constantly teaching life just how stubborn I am.

Monday, December 26, 2011

Navy Years , part 2 - Vocabulary

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Navy Years – part 2 – Vocabulary

Clearly, there will be triggers and this will be NSFW

Vocabulary. Going into the Navy I had none. I knew the word fag. When I was younger I knew that word as if it was my own name. I knew other words, dyke, homo, and a handful of other LBGT slurs. I knew a ton of racial slurs. But tranny was not a slur I knew. I knew that some people had sex changes in life, but I believed these people were still their biological birth sex regardless. I was taught via my social conditioning they were depraved perverts. That is all I really knew going into the Navy.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Navy Years, part 1 - Hair Drama!

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Merry X-mas!!! 

The Navy Years, part 1 – Hair Drama

This post picks up immediately in time where I left the last post.

I'm sure, with my chatty fingers, and unquenchable need to add more adjectives to describe things, that I could expand my eventful Navy years into a three thousand page drama series. With that in mind, it is my intention to not do that. Instead, it is my intention to see and tell where my internal trans-denial was leading me, and what it was causing me to do and become. This small paragraph is more for me than you. Especially for when I continually proof read my post. My last post, despite it still having dozens of typos, I probably had re-read it a good 50 plus times before I published it.

The second class recruiter never got out the car to meet me - I can't remember his rating. I was already walking to the car before the little blue Navy car came to a stop. When it stopped, I was inside and buckling up before the recruiter could say hello.

“Everything okay? Do you need some more time? We have time, we plan for that.”

“No, I'm good. We can go.”

“You sure? It's not my business, but you and your mom look like you guys are upset. We can stay a bit if you need to.”

“No, I rather not. This is normal. Please let's go.”


Thursday, December 22, 2011

My Early Years

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Growing up just plain sucked nightmarishly bad for me. People often say "I'd never go back to my childhood." When I say it, I literally mean it. I honestly hate to even think of my childhood. Early, very early, I knew I was not like the other "boys", and was actually for a time, pretty convinced I was one of the girls – all of kindergarten and first grade. There are some awfully dark events that haunt me to this day from that period of my life.  That I honestly don't want to share, but let me say I was utterly ostracized at this school. Despite what I was feeling and saying, everyone saw it differently than me, and this pic sums up well most of grade school for me.

The site I found this on said this was staged.
Sadly, my bruises were all too real.





Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Hello!

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Oh, the deliciously sweet and agonisingly painful irony of being me. I don't know where to start. I'd love to start where there was something that wasn't ironic, but alas, I'm through and through it seems the blunt joke of the Universe. I'm the sum of diametrically opposed odds. It's not what I want, but, do any of us get to choose in these times? F-it, I'm rolling with it.

I have an ability to write, and write a lot. One small problem, I'm piss poor at grammar – and I guess I should add I'm terrible at following rules. I think these are the reasons I can write actually. I have no hold ups. I write the way I think. I suppose in some eyes that's probably a bad thing. My thinking has no hold ups either, other than the small caveat, I try to use logic to the best of my ability – not that I always succeed, but that I always attempt to. I'm degreed in math, and I have a huge passion for it, but irony strikes again, I'm terrible at sitting down and doing it. I'm actually more passionate about math than writing – or at least I keep telling myself that. The day has arrived where I need things to survive via some means that exchanges ultra dirty green paper for things that help me aim at this goal of happiness. I'm not sure either of these things have true value, but it seems to be the trendy thing to get what you need. So I'm going to give it a go, once I figure out how to.

This is my personal blog. This has no aim other than saying where I'm at day to day in life. It's like my journal, but for you! For me it is a sketch pad, a tour de force in chaos spewed unapologetically. It is most likely a semi-accurate projection of me and my days onto a 2 dimensional plane, squeezed into the tiny frame work of this ancient mode of communication, and shot down tubes to your image capturing devices. Imagine blogging when we're all hooked up to the web via neural connections, throwing our thoughts like javelins out into web space and into other peoples' meaty neuro-space? Sounds fun, I can't wait.

What else? Oh yea!! Let us not forget me. Ha, yea, me. The me that few people know about yet, but many more are about to. I am a transgender female. That's right, I'm the 1% of the 1% that most people fear the most. I'm a fire breathing transsexual female who does calculus in her head. The irony is, besides the obvious, that I have the biggest heart for people. But because of the small mindedness of the majority's opinions of people, I'm seen by the anti-LGBT vocal some, as a demon out to hurt, trick, and destroy people – nothing could be further from the truth.

Reading this blog you'll get to watch, err, read, about me changing and living. I'm sure I'll have some sorta pic-ta-do thingy or something for you to see, eventually, but for now, just words. You'll get to see me stumble, fall, and break ego-bones, and hopefully wobble on, as I try to find a way to survive and move towards my dreams – or out of the one I'm in. So I invite you to read along about my adventures as I grow as a person in a world that seems to be a wee bit hostile to me.  Maybe I'll be able to plant some roses along the way, slay some dragons with tensor calculus, and find a cute pair of heels.