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Finding a few pictures from a trip to Thailand I went to 10 years ago.They were pictures taken with Katois aka ladyboys.It was cool to meet them and planning to go back next year.A couple of them saw I am transgender too.
It's funny with photos isn't it, how we think we look in them vs. how we actually do look in them! I'm hopeless at smiling and I have to try really hard not to frown or look like a zombie. I'm never sure how I come across to others.
I had a moment late last night when my eldest daughter facetimed my wife for some now forgotten reason, and when I was handed the tablet and talking to her, I was fixated on my image in the corner. My hair was wild at the time, I was a bit tipsy and all I saw was a woman! I have no idea what she saw in that context. I'll probably never know.
I hope to see you on the Zoom meeting tonight, April. I might be late, since I am doing lights and sound for a play that opened last night. I was home before ten last night, so I think I'll be able to make it.
Today is an anniversary for me. Seven years ago today, I stood up at the weekly community kaffeeklatsch as <deadname> and announced that henceforth I would be Kathy. It went as well as I could have imagined: there were some surprised looks, but no hostility and lots of support. A whole layer of stress disappeared that day and has never come back. (There have been other stresses, but that one is gone.) I have been me full-time ever since that moment.
This is a scarily accurate description of what I feel!
I hope I don't sound too schmaltzy by saying this, but I remember when I signed up to this forum last year, during the sign-up process the question is asked, "Why do you want to join TransPulse?" to which I wrote, "Looking for a home where I can freely write about my issues and interact with similar people."
I think I just found one. ❤️
Relief (emotion)
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Relief is a positive emotion experienced when something unpleasant, painful or distressing has not happened or has come to an end.
Good morning, everyone!! I was up early again - already on my third cup of coffee having walked/fed the dog and read the local paper.
We have a birthday party for a friend to go to this afternoon but no real plans otherwise.
I hope to be able to attend tonight's TGP Zoom session. It's been weeks since I've been able to participate with the illness/loss of our dog, two horrible colds in succession and our trip to chase the solar eclipse.
Have a wonderful day and look for the goodness in it.
I think we tend to be overly critical of our looks, whether we're trying to express ourselves as masculine, feminine or anywhere along the gender spectrum. For me, I use photos as a way to track my progress, to help me find my style and look and to help me find ways to improve myself in posture, looks, make-up, style......
I didn't really think about our FB avatar being public but then realized that when people search they do see it.
Since I'm not out to anyone but my wife, therapist, priest and people here, my FB page remains "that guy." I have created a Bitmoji that is relatively androgynous moving slowly towards the feminine. Long gray hair, earrings, softer features...I'm transitioning it along with myself. :-)
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