Hi, I'm New.

[Guest Ryan Michael]

Hi everyone, my name is Ryan Michael and I'm a 23 year old guy from NY. I'm not really sure what to put here, haha. I'd been going back and forth between genderqueer and female for a few years, until I realized that it was okay to identify as male and that's how I felt best. I've told some friends and even fewer family members. It's interesting with family. Some are accepting, some are trying, and my mother just doesn't want to deal with it. I have support from friends and my Graduate Department though, plus my therapist, so that makes it okay. I'm really glad to finally be on the forums. I'd been using the chat and then finally remembered that the forums were out there , so here's to reaching out here as well.

It's great to meet everyone

[Paula ult]

Hi Ryan and welcome to Laura's,

Come with me to the members lounge and i will get us some pizza and something to drink, others will be around shortly to say hi, we have quite a few guys here and they should be around shortly too.

HUGS!!!

Paula

[Guest ~Brenda~]

Hi Ryan

Welcome to Laura's dude. I am glad that you joined the forums too! You will find that that forums are a different pace than chat. On the forums you can read what others have said over a long period of time.

Make yourself at home Ryan. Know that we accept you

Love

Brenda

[Guest Donna Jean]

Hello, Ryan!

Good to meet you, Hon...

Welcome to the Playground...

I think that you'll find a wealth of info here and lots of good people to chat with...

Please get comfy and enjoy yourself.....OK?

Good!

Donna Jean

[Guest Pól]

Welcome to the playground, Ryan!

[Carolyn Marie]

Welcome to Laura's, Ryan!

I'm glad you've already been to the Chat rooms. Its a great place, but I prefer the slower pace of the forums myself.

We have an FtM forum if you haven';t already seen it, but you are welcome to visit and post in any of the forums.

Please take a moment also to read through the Forum rules; there is a link at the top of most pages. We moderate the forums to keep

it within a PG-13 level and keep bad folks away from the members.

Make yourself at home, Ryan, because you are!

Carolyn Marie

[gennee]

Hey Ryan and welcome to the site. I live in Brooklyn and graduated from SUNY-Farmingdale when it was a junior college.

Gennee

[Guest van-na]

Hi Ryan,

<<curtsey>>

Welcome to Laura's Playground.

Please feel free to come over and chat sometime.

The Chat room does require another registration that is separate from from your forums one.

Please read the chat room rules before coming in, and expect a short interview with one of the chat room moderators.

One of the things that they will ask you is if you read the rules.

We have FTM meetings -Mon & Fri 8pm est, and you are welcome to attend.

We all look forward to seeing you.

vanna

[Guest Jean Davis]

Hey Ryan

Welcome to the family, I'm happy to see that you found your way over here.

This is where all the slow typists come together.

I'm the slowest of them all even though Sally likes to disagree with me on that.

So being that you are accustom to the fast pace of the chat room, I brought you some coffee to help keep you awake while you wait for some of us here

Hope you enjoy your time here and feel free to post all you like.

LUV

Jean