Archive for category: Emotional Transition

Nobody really understands

SophieFR April 11, 2021 Friends and Family Situations 18

It occurred to me this week, that so few people can really understand my reasons for choosing to live the way I do! Even more so, on the subject of surgery (SRS). The latter being quite a dramatic and extreme choice that encouraged some to tell me that, it will not change who I a...

Who am I ?

Timmie Sawyer April 5, 2021 Going Full Time 7

Who am I? The other day I got up to go to work, hopefully, to finish up a job and get paid. I had just a small piece of trim to be installed, so I got dressed in skinny jeans, a very pretty blouse, and 2-inch heeled booties with the intention to change my shoes, but since I wear ...

Editor’s Choice – Broke the cycle

It was a very tough thing for my mum and me to end a pattern of life that destroyed my brothers, father, and our family. My mom and I broke that cycle forever and set me free to become myself. I grew up with two older brothers that were drug addicts big time, I am so grateful I d...

Life Still Goes On

Timmie Sawyer March 4, 2021 Going Full Time 1

I have said that there is so much more to my story than is first apparent, not unlike all of the other friends that are here to tell and to get help with their stories, yes stories. If I have learned anything, it is that you do write your own story. Sometimes you are pushed in a ...

Are We Born, or Made? A Coming of Gender Story

Alexis Moon February 20, 2021 Am I Transsexual? 14

Billy was my first best friend. We met in kindergarten. Billy was also the first boy I’d ever seen try on women’s clothes. The kindergarten room had a bin full of adult clothes for dress-up. One day, Billy decided to pull on this black and green sequined dress with ma...

A new life – of a kind

Timmie Sawyer February 12, 2021 Friends and Family Situations 1

I started this journey without knowing which direction I would be heading in. I have always known I was different, I liked playing games with all my brothers, like war, hide and seek, football, baseball and dirt clod fights, we didn’t have snow in California so dirt it was,...

Believing in Love

SophieFR February 8, 2021 Emotional Transition 8

I’ve had real love in my life more than once during my childhood and since being a child. As infants we don’t have a concept of love and learn through our parents in the way they care, protect and cherish us from birth until we fly the nest. Even then a parent’s love never ...

Stumbling over the decades

Jue Meili Olaes February 7, 2021 Emotional Transition 9

My transitioning journey I will be 73 in May 2021. Reflecting on my long journey, I still recall vivid memories of my childhood, of my yearnings to become a beautiful female. Reflections of hiding in a closet I will be 73 in May 2021. Reflecting on my long journey, I still recall...

My Life will go on

Paige Valentina January 22, 2021 Friends and Family Situations 32

Dear friends I am writing to let you that my mom passed away recently. She had been stricken with cancer and I put her in hospice on January 6th. I wanted to share with all of my friends, especially Vanessa, that before she passed away I told her I was her daughter. And ...

Mourning for yourself

SophieFR December 30, 2020 Emotional Transition 20

The title may appear to make no sense at all when you first read it, but let me explain how we can find ourselves doing exactly just that in our present life Describing going through transition as emotional and traumatic, could sound a little like an understatement to many enteri...