Archive for category: Friends and Family Situations

What’s next is Here

Sabrina MacTavish June 24, 2023 Friends and Family Situations 10

So… My father passed peacefully at home. I knew it was getting close as he was sleeping more and not wanting to eat solids. His mind was there, but I knew he was processing the coming end. When he gave up wanting to drink his nourishment and told me he didn’t want his daily b...

Searching for a Spot to Land

Kim Dahlenbergen September 30, 2022 Friends and Family Situations 0

I struggle with understanding and accepting my identity; it feels as if I always have. Looking back on nearly seven decades, my sense of who I am has wobbled with an eccentric orbit between the poles of gender identity, at times near but never touching definitive masculinity or f...

Coming Out to My Grown Daughter

Brielle March 11, 2022 Friends and Family Situations 23

Hi everyone! I also posted this for the members of CDH. If you want my backstory, please visit my profile. This is the story of what happened when I visited my daughter and her bride in Maryland over President’s Day weekend and came out to her. I’m in my 4th month of ...

Where am I at?

Timmie Sawyer May 11, 2021 Friends and Family Situations 0

I am Timmie, that much I know, I found her sitting in a deep deep hole, when I saw her for the first time I looked at her and said, “I’m so sorry, if I am seen helping you out I will get in trouble and people will say bad things about me”. You see, I am already in...

More stumbling through the decades

Jue Meili Olaes April 26, 2021 Friends and Family Situations 0

The journey continues My story continues in September 2020 when I applied for a legal name change. I chose the name Jue Meili (pronounced Gee May Lee) meaning pearl beautiful. It takes an untold number of years for a real pearl to grow inside an oyster shell to become a most bea...

Editor’s Choice – Broke the cycle

Cassie Gem March 22, 2021 Editor's Choice, Friends and Family Situations 1

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...

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,...

My Life will go on

Paige Valentina January 22, 2021 Friends and Family Situations 34

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 ...

Out of the dark ages, (concluded)

Angela Booth April 3, 2020 Friends and Family Situations 4

My confidence was high now, but I hadn’t told any friends or any work colleagues. This seemed to be an area that was difficult for me to face. Some of these people I’d known most of my life. However, I had thought about it and an opportunity presented itself one day when ...

Out of the dark ages…continued

Angela Booth March 17, 2020 Friends and Family Situations 3

I asked a lot of questions about myself, and whether I wanted to undertake surgery. At this time being T.G. was still a bit taboo, and the environment I worked in would have made it very difficult, so I stayed where I was. However, I was beginning to look acceptable and knew my s...