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I’m not a fan of Starbucks either. I love our little town cafe coffee, anytime of the day. Apple Pie is my go to treat. Today I had a wonderful omelette with my coffee. Mindy🌈🐛🏳️‍⚧️🦋

I thought this was interesting. https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/06/trans-history-week/ There is a link to watch it.

I’m on the other side of the imposter syndrome AMAB and on a slowed pace in transition. Best wishes, stay positive and motivated Mindy🌈🐛🏳️‍⚧️🦋

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/mississippi-passes-bill-allowing?r=k5hac&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web This part could be pretty bad- "Lastly, it offers a “private right of action” that appears to be targeted at transgender people, allowing cisgender people to sue to prevent transgender people from using bathrooms aligned with their gender identity…" I can see a potential for bathroom "vigilantes" to use this. Just paying legal fees to defend yourself can ruin you, regardless of the outcome of the case.

It's all well and good, but the facts on the street will always be different than what is written on paper. It takes a very long time for an EEOC or OSHA complaint to get attention. For most people, the length of time between filing a complaint and something actually getting done means just finding a different job.

As a transgender male often I feel as if I'm not viewed as man enough especially around other biological males. I often also feel as if I'm not enough in general not good enough to have the things that I have because I ruin everything and I feel like a phony when trying to pass. I look in the mirror and my outside appearance doesn't match the way I want to look and appear and my mom prevents me from reaching my maximum male potential and around my mom I'm always mis-genderd and she tells me that Im not a man and never will be one which plays into me feeling not man enough because I feel like I never will me the man I know I am. I don't know what to do with these feelings and thoughts.

I was really lucky when I gave up smoking. I just decided one morning that I just didn't want to smoke anymore. That was back in 1996. The silly thing was, I still had a couple of packets left I and used them up! After that I only 'borrowed' less than a handful in the months after that and I haven't missed them since.

Have I reached the tipping point?

Maddee, you have a million friends.

Our Maltese daughter-in-law makes a very mean Bolognese sauce, which we combine with spiral pasta. We pulled some leftovers out of the freezer for tonight's meal. Tomorrow night will be chicken Kiev, with potato segments baked in the same dish, accompanied with boiled peas and broccolini.

I suspect some of these people are not primarily LGBTQ+ but primarily get their kicks by publicly shocking other people. They take advantage of the parade and think they can get away with it year after year, and sometimes do. Not just the parade, but sometimes other events that provide cover for them to act this way. They do a great deal of damage to perceptions by the public and by the legislators against us.

I used to smoke many years ago. Now it makes me sick on my stomach which I consider a plus.

Considering my heart open to friendship

I use a electric kettle and a French press. I am not a fan of Starbucks. I sometimes go to a local coffeeshop, but am satisfied with your basic coffee and a scone.

Many "red" or "blue" states are not monolithic. NC splits something like 49-51. Actually, about 1/3 Rep, 1/3 Dem, and 1/3 nonaffiliated. Since the legislature makes the districts, they favor the Rep to a 1 vote super majority. Our Governor is Dem, and Dems can win statewide elections. Of course you'd never know that with what is coming out of the statehouse lately. My point is that the "shifting" is not really shifting, it only reflects the actual population of the state. When I was growing up I used to hear it said that "changing her mind was a woman's prerogative." I embrace that. I am fine with changing my mind when I want to. Things change, sometimes we need to change as well. I don't consider that as "unstable" - just not dead yet.

Also, this short interview. They're so awesome, so down to earth:

A trip to the ER last night,I had an allergic reaction.I have an allergy to cigarette smoke,a neighbor's friend was smoking and told him not to smoke near me,I did get sick.Checked me out and feeling better.Going to see my allergist on Thursday for a follow up

This is wonderful!. I sincerely hope we get another 4 years to get these new regulations well intrenched. Hugs, Charlize

Well back to only one friend

Good morning everyone, I’ve been working on a few projects and my internet screen time has been very low. Today is Primary Election Day for Indian voters. I will be voting later, but the most important thing I’m looking forward to is the reduction of political advertising. Let’s get back to regular daytime advertising which reminds me of the need for hearing aids, Medicare choices, and comfortable catheters. Heaven forbid I would need an accident injury lawyer to get me the big check. Only daytime TV can take a 30 minute show from the 1980s and make it into an hour long series. I really don’t watch that much TV because I prefer to listen to music while I’m in the shop or doing yard work. The coffee is good, the morning songbirds are loud as they forage for their hatches. Hugs, Mindy🌈🐛🏳️‍⚧️🦋

I pretty much started out what some would consider as the androgynous phase of childhood puberty. Being the youngest sibling in my family, I was mostly seen wearing boy clothes at the time. As I explained earlier about my parents not showing me my birth certificate until later on in life, in the meantime before that happened, my daddy always wanted a boy/son in the family. It's been a long time, when I first started menstruating, it was a turning point in my life, followed by a series of car ride returns to the emergency room, patient profiling, and misdiagnosis. From that moment my parents had stopped saying I was going through a phase. One night at my parents' home during midnight hours, they thought I was asleep, but I saw their bedroom light was still turned on. Out of curiosity, I tip toed to their bedroom's door as I listened in on their conversations, it was the first time I heard my parents questioned about the gender marker on my birth certificate wither a hidden variation involved in my development.

Disgust- :marked aversion aroused by something highly distasteful : REPUGNANCE : to provoke to loathing, repugnance, or aversion : be offensive to : to cause (one) to lose an interest or intention