Yay! I'm New Here And Would Like To Introduce Myself.

[Guest FemtoKitten]

These will all be two-sentence tid-bits of information, feel free to ask me more questions about myself.

Hi, I am a teenage girl in the Denver area. I am 16.5 years old, I have gone through 4 of the 6 months in order to be able to get a letter of recommendation for HRT.

I am allowed to be wearing clothes in the home, I also wear them under baggy clothes while at school or outside of the home. I prefer sleek sports wear, or calming flowery/frilly clothing.

I have a mentor, she is great! I have had her for about half a year now, first person to take me out shopping and teach me what I need to know.

Anyways, all of my family is in the know, as well as is the school system! Everything is smooth sailing so far, which I am quite lucky for that.

Me and my therapist are planning/hoping on me starting HRT mid-october and going into the RLE at the start of senior year at the earliest, after graduation at the latest. In order to see her I have to take a bus, a train, another bus, and then walk about two-miles, it is worth it.

My GPA is 3.8, and half of my courses are college level, the rest are above my grade level, with the exception of english. I am trying to start up a support group at school, there is someone else (FTM). It is less for us, and more for those who may come out in the future and need support.

I came out because I kept going through a cycle of suicide attempts every few months or so... one came too close for comfort and I had to be hospitalized. I decided at that point I would be more useful to the world as a failure then dead (my thinking at the time, not anymore).

Anyways, that sums up some basic facts about me. Feel free to ask to get to know me better or to clarify what I said.

[Guest Julie T]

Kitten

Welcome to Laura's Playground. You seem to be in a very good place now, and we always hope our younger people can do as well as you seen to have done. Unfortunately, it can be hard for some, especially if there is no support from parents. So yes, please come on it and help us with the younger people, especially. We are here for you of course. I have been on HRT for a while, and many of us have, so we can help with that? maybe. And we all know about suicide attempts, oh my. If it ever gets dark you must come here and tell us, promise me that? Please know it works both ways, as we learn from each other.

Julie

[Guest FemtoKitten]

Thanks, I know I am a very lucky person... absurdly lucky, I don't know how I feel about that. I will do my best to help others, I promise, my mentor made a great impact on me in that way. I promise if it ever gets really dark I will tell you guys, I sincerely hope I am past that. I also promise I will go to the correct forums to make my topics if I need to.

Thank you very much for your input!

[MaryEllen]

Hello Kitten,

Welcome to Laura's Playground.

MaryEllen

[Guest Evan/Evalyn]

hello nice to meet you im evalyn

im 16 also turned it in april and next wednesday i have my appointment to go see a gender therapist and shes the one that will give me the go to start hrt when i am ready i did have an appointment this wednesday but surpirse surpirse another anxiety attack well anyways enogh about me lol

and also im in the ontario area

nice to meet you

,evalyn

[Guest Stephen-Renae]

Hey, Kitten!

It's great to know things are going good for you, now! I'm 17 FTM myself...wish I'd realized sooner/had a mentor/could start a support group/etc. xD you lucky girl!

You sound like an upbeat, down-to-earth person to me. Like a, "This is how life is, and I'm gonna' make the best of it!" kind of thing. Those are my favorite kind of people, lol! Feel free to message me if ya' ever wanna chat.

-Jesse

[Carolyn Marie]

Welcome to the Playground, Kitten.

It's fantastic how much support you have in your life, and how well things are going for you. At your age, with HRT you will likely do amazingly well, physically. Please look around and post any questions or comments in any of the forums, take in the Chat Rooms and make some friends. After 5 posts you can use the private message (PM) system and view profiles.

HUGS

Carolyn Marie

[Guest miss kindheart]

Hi Femtokitten,

<<< hug >>>

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 all look forward to seeing you.

vanna

[Guest terra]

wow, you're like a little ball of sunshine

[Guest FemtoKitten]

Wow... thank you all for your support! I think I'll definitely like it here.

[gennee]

Hi Kitten and welcome to Laura's.

Gennee

[Guest Jen61]

Hi, FemtoKitten,

I am proud of you for forging ahead with your education. You are a good role model, we need more teens like you. We all know that there moment but you are right we are here for each other.

Hugs,

Jen61

PS what is with the "femto"

[Guest Mia J]

Hi Kitten,

How nice to have you here.

My extended family daughter also goes by Kitten. If you are anything like her you are super.

There are several of us here from Colorado and the metro area. Having followed a lot of the child / teen trans issues here we are pretty lucky. It sounds like you are doing great.

Please, If the dark times get to you PM me or maybe we can talk. It is people like you who are our hope and future and we are here to support you and you have so much to offer us.

Great to hear about your school work. (I hated English.....) and you make a great effort to get to your G.T. Hopefully that will get easier in the future.

When I was your age there was just no place for us to turn. I am so glad that things are getting better.

Mia