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By VickySGV · Posted
Puerto Rico has not been treated well by the rest of the U.S. and struggling people who have been kicked around by those who should help them start looking for others to blame for their struggles, we know the blame is on the U.S. agencies who withheld economic and direct aid, but they can't kick mainland Federal agencies around, so it is the weakest who are the whipping boys and girls. -
By Vanessa Michelle · Posted
@CD RachelHi! It's https://community.qchristian.org/ QCF is an affirming Christian organization of LGBTQ+ people and has its own forums site. I was told about it by a friend of mine who has volunteered for them before and also Kathy Baldock's and Matthew Vines's work (both Christians). If you join, I am on there by the same user name as here. I would love to connect to more believers here or there. I think it helps us in the process to see and hear others who love Jesus and are not straight and who also know he loves us so ridiculously much too! ❤️ -
By Heather Nicole · Posted
(I know I'm nerding myself out with this answer, and most won't get the reference, but...) Major Kusonagi has a way via advanced prosthetic shell, but you have to live in a futuristic cyberpunk fiction. Upside though, is you also get invisibility. I'm on the waiting list. In other news...I've now joined the trans-ranks and decided that face masks are seriously awesome ...I was just at the grocery store earlier this evening, I wasn't even trying to pass, but I still got accidentally correctly-gendered!!! I guess my long wavy hair (definitely my favorite feature right now by far...heeehee), zircon earrings, overweight "moobs", and face mask covering up most of my beard must've been enough to tip the scales. Considering I've been feeling rather self-doubty/impostor syndrome this week, that surprise just absolutely made my day! I was in the checkout line, nobody behind me, just one guy ahead of me but he had already paid and was putting his bags in his cart. As the cashier (a really adorable college-aged young gal) was scanning my items, another employee came by to start bagging my items. I guess the bagger must've gotten confused and started trying to hand my bags to the previous customer because as I was going through my wallet, I heard the cashier girl say "Oh, those are his"...but then she quickly stopped and corrected herself..."Er, I mean hers". "Hers"??!?!? There was nobody else around she could've been talking about except me. My heart just about leapt out of my chest and I was just on cloud nine all the way out to the car, like I'd just won the lottery or something. Of course, all of a sudden I couldn't bring myself to use my voice any more than absolutely necessary. Instant voice dysphoria, but you know what, in this case, I'll take it! @ElizabethStar OMG, congrats so much on all that validation!!! 🎉 And also on your birthday, too! 🍰 I may be technically "out" to my mom, but I still haven't felt like I'm at a point yet where I'd feel right asking her to switch pronouns for me. So I can imagine just how special getting a card like must be. So happy for you!!! -
By ElizabethStar · Posted
It's too late for coffee but....... For some reason I was compelled to check the mail today. Not surprising there was a birthday card from my mother. I just figured it was the normal everyday card but it wasn't. The first word I read, in a big scripted font was "Daughter". Right there in front of me, a card from my mother, to her daughter. Honestly I didn't really know if my mother would ever truly accept me. Now...I do. I really wanted to cry (not in front of the wife) but I will cherish that card forever. Before dinner I found myself out getting lottery tickets. The jackpot is somewhere around 6-700mil. The ATM is broken at the first store I went to (closest to my house) and won't let you pay for 'em with a debt card. A random customer piped-up and suggested where I could go. I headed out. The cashier there was extremely friendly, very helpful and kind of cute. When I was checking out he looked at me, in a sweet little voice, said "I know *****'s no your name, what is it? I just replied "Elizabeth". He then tells me what beautiful name I have. After he said that I did hear anything else. Holy crap! Did I just get hit on? or was he just flirting with me? When I told my wife she used what is becoming her standard reply, "This is what you asked for". What I asked for? Yeah...well, we'll talk about that at a later time. If it's what she has to do to settle with my transition so be it. After dinner I got another happy surprise. For kicks I checked my work email. There was a message from HR. He asked me if I wanted my new insurance and benefits cards to have Elizabeth on them. We can do that? I'd love that. There have been a few things getting to me lately and I needed some love. -
By JustineM · Posted
Well I’m sitting here trying not to ugly cry. The calls to my Dad and brother went amazingly well. My brother said it didn’t bother him and he was glad I was taking steps to be happy. Dad almost immediately offered to help cover therapy and HRT med costs. Said he loved me and that would never change. He did say that he wouldn’t stop calling me his son, though given his age and the way he was raised I didn’t really expect him too. -
By Carolyn Marie · Posted
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-man-fatally-shot-puerto-rico-n1254313 There have been seven killings of trans people just in Puerto Rico in the last 12 months. May Samuel rest in peace and justice found for his killers. Carolyn Marie -
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By Cyndee · Posted
Congratulations on your 2nd BD this month Vicky 🙂 8 years now, wow. Hugs Cyndi -
By KymmieL · Posted
Well my Endo got my message and was going to see about getting a hold of my Pharmacist. NO word yet. Hurry up and wait is the thing. Still no word on the job front. No call back on the evidence specialist and no call for an interview for the analyst position. I am starting to get disheartened. I know I can't. I guess I will keep plugging along. On day at a time. I am dreading going back to work tomorrow. I know half way though my shift my back will be killing me. Anyone know a way I can have my brain put in the body of a 23yr old female but she has to be hot. Kymmie -
By KymmieL · Posted
Mine does too. She'll hug me and say I love you even though I don't understand. I thought that was fine until I learned she doesn't want to understand. I know once I move it will be hard on me since even with all the BS I still love her dearly. Kymmie -
By VickySGV · Posted
It is 5:30 PM my time. 8 years ago at this time I had been taken to my room after GCS by Dr. Bowers at Sutter Hospital in San Benito CA, just outside of San Francisco. I had been cleared to order dinner from the hospital kitchen, the food was actually good when it got there, but a wet beef burrito, miso soup, non-fat milk, and fruit cocktail for desert is not what most people would envision as their first meal of a new body, but it was good. About twenty minutes before I got to the room, I had been in the Recovery ward, and in my haziness of coming out of the anesthetic I had had a dream of being in my parent's oldest car with them begging them to stop and pull over so I could pee. A few moments later it seems they connected my catheter to its collection bag and the dream and bladder discomfort ended. I have one coming to picture that shows my legs under a blanket spread apart by a couple of ice bags on the swollen area and I see this in almost all of the "immediately after" pictures of my other Postie friends. I call it Post Op Leg Position, but it is real and seen nowhere else. I am happy it happened, but there were some rough times in the months to come, but by my first anniversary they were in the books as simply some unique memories. As I have written here in the Forums, I have learned several things. No matter how well prepared for GCS you are it will still be far from a walk in the park. It will affect your outlook on life differently than you once imagined. It can be lonely at the wrong times. You will learn what GCS DOES NOT DO for your life and other's lives. I know now that it is wrong for me to encourage others to have the surgery when they are unsure it is right for them, but once they know it is right, they can count on me for full support. I have visited others and been with their families and friends as they are coming out of surgery many times, and those times help me with any small lingering doubts I have had to know I did the right things and it is wonderful and not the grotesqie horrors our H8ers imagine for us and about us. It is my second BD celebration of this month. -
By CD Rachel · Posted
Hi, I never heard of Q Christian site before but I am very happy to know about it now!!! Rachel -
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By Jani · Posted
That is so frustrating. I'm sorry you had to spend all that money not to mention emotional capital. I do hope your surgery goes smoothly. You've earned it. Jani -
By KathyLauren · Posted
Oy! That was an expensive misplaced electrode! Sorry that happened to you. I have an intermittent heart irregularity that caused the docs some concern. I have called 911 an gone to Emerg. a couple of times over the years when it did it for a long time, but it always clears up before anyone gets an EKG on me. Anyway, my GCS surgeon wanted an EKG just to make sure. So my local doctor booked an appointment at the hospital, and I got it done. No problem until a couple of days before the final reporting deadline before my surgery: my file is complete, except they never received the EKG! Quick call to my doctor: no, they never sent it. Because they never received it from the hospital lab. Call the lab. No, they never faxed it anywhere. Argh!! Give them the fax number for my surgeon, tell them to fax it stat! Finally, a call from the surgeon's office: they got it. Whew! Of course, it showed an absolutely normal heart, so I was good to go. Good luck with your surgery, Jeanette!
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