Hi everyone, I’ve been on cyproterone acetate for a few months and recently stopped. Since then, I’ve been feeling emotionally flat and disconnected. Has anyone else experienced this after stopping CPA? How long did it take for things to improve?   I should add that I’ve been prone to numbness as part of depression my whole life, but this feels way more extreme, like my emotions are completely locked away.

good morning I’m off to get my neck pierced.  Calm down, it’s my quartily injections.     @awkward-yet-sweet I use small S snaps to attach my keys to the D rings on my purse and I separate  my work keys on one side and car and home keys on the other.  ‘try not to wear heavy stuff, but if I'm wearing pants with a belt I use the KeySafe clip.  My husband actually wears three!  One for home, one for vehicle, one for work.” Pretty much the same idea but I never wear a belt but if I did it would be some sort of fancy draped chain or something like that. Just for appearance.  I wear mostly tight fitting at the waist clothes.  Defiantly not concealed carry compatible.   @Ivy I had no idea.  You take care of yourself.  We will get through this patch of anti trans, we’ve been doing it for thousands of years already.  Some are worse than others and this is a rough one considering we were just on a high acceptance.   love    Willow

The LGB community has fortunately embraced us.  They did so years ago in gay bars, which was in many ways a blessing for me.  I often found some kindness there when it seemed impossible elsewhere.  Today i see some gays speaking about separating so we won't "bring them down."  They have seemed to be the "log cabin" type but i still find that worrisome. We are a small group and as such we are easily targeted.    Hugs,   Charlize

letters don't define me, happily individual

Thinking of you @Ivy. ❤️

My tears can be happy, sad, or painful depending on the occasion. I have no trouble crying. I’ve said this before but I think self-love can help unlock tears. 

Oh, hi there, @DawnD.   Clothes that fit...I know a whole bunch of guys who happen to have enough natural 'female' curves to absolutely justify their need to wear clothing bought from 'across the aisle' so to speak. It is a matter of physical comfort! Men's clothes don't fit them!   At the end of the day, it is only fabric. It doesn't matter if you need to buy certain clothing to suit your figure or to suit your brain. Things like men's tees are unisex anyway, but women's tees, or tops that look like them, are also usually unisex enough to get away with, while accentuating your natural figure if you have one. You should have absolutely no fear about wearing that sort of stuff in public.   As for leggings, well, that's not my cup of tea, but plenty of people of all genders wear them anyway. Go for it!

Tears won't come, no pain washing.

I was in a conference last Friday and we noted that there does seem to be an attempt to divide and conquer approach. The very same question came up as to why, and it is as AllieJ has rightly pointed out we are a very small minority. If we were to March on our own, under our own banner then we would be an easy target. 

Raindrops aren't teardrop-shaped, but more like flattened spheres or even hamburgers. The smell of rain is a unique scent, often attributed to bacteria released from the soil by raindrops. Not all rain reaches the ground; some evaporates or sublimes before it hits the ground. 

Also, @VickySGV is right, removing the t from lgbtqia+ is not gonna stop people thinking we have a fetish. They thought that way before lgbtqia+ was ever coined, and they’ll be thinking it decades hence.    Oh, and intersex is not a sexual orientation.

Cool musical poetry.