Archive for category: Emotional Transition

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? 25

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 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 ...

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...

Thoughts about “Passing”

Carly Holloway December 14, 2020 Going Full Time 11

Hey they, girlfriends. It’s great to be with you again. Happy Christmas season to you. You are all beautiful heroes. Never forget that. I’ve read many stories, posts, forums and articles here about “passing”, and I wanted to add my 3 cents worth (e...

Bared My Soul

SophieFR November 15, 2020 Going Full Time 0

Disclosure In the spring of 2017, I sent photos of myself to my daughter to make her aware of my life. It resulted in a trip to the UK for one week to stay with her and the last time she met me as a man. It was one of the toughest things I’ve had to do in my life. We both s...

Living Life as a Female

Paige Valentina November 9, 2020 Going Full Time 5

Hello Girls, my name is Paige and although it’s been a while since I’ve last written an article I’m back now and would like to share so many things with all the girls here. Remember that we are all here for the same reason, that this is an amazing place that Vanessa has cre...