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Wel, you'll have to see what the senate does, if anything and if it gets cloture. I have my doubts about that. I am also pretty sure that covering pre-existing conditions will be one of the major sticking points. Once you start allowing it again, more will be uninsured and end up in emergency rooms for their health care. Even when it is not an emergency, but just because that is the only place they can go to get treatment. 

 

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I read that the Senate team working on their version of the bill is all male.  That they would not include women members of their caucus on a bill that is so important to women is unconscionable.

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By the way, all this talk about pre-existing conditions, they say that's only if you buy your own insurance. They said that if it's employer sanctioned, nothing changes. 

Even if this is true, how is that not a form of discrimination???

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It's been explained that employer sanctioned insurance is not immune from changes due to the law. Why would they want to cost themselves more than needed?    Also prior to the ACA many employer plans had lifetime caps that had to be lifted.  My company did.  There's no reason why they wouldn't go back to a cap.

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Back after a long time of being away. Lived male for a year and a bit, detransitioned just over two years ago - it was way too hard for me to deal with society. A few circumstances have triggered my dysphoria in increasing amounts and I think I need to seek some professional counseling again. Last time I was scared off because no one knew how to handle transgender people so I never got the help I needed.

In addition, I'm finding that I embrace femininity when I'm dating men because they give me validation, but the little bits of dysphoria never subside.

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Glad your here Zayden.  I doubt at times that i will fully be any gender.  Fortunately the feelings of dysphoria have left me 95% of the time.  My GT helped a great deal and so has sharing and reading the shares of others here.

We are not alone.

 

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2 minutes ago, Charlize said:

I doubt at times that I will fully be any gender.

Charlize

...and the mic DROPS! 

I've come to understand, at least for myself, that gender dysphoria is not curable.  Dysphoria can be reduced but my gender will probably haunt me to my death.

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22 hours ago, Zayden said:

 

In addition, I'm finding that I embrace femininity when I'm dating men because they give me validation, but the little bits of dysphoria never subside.

Welcome back :)

This sentence is making me think. I tend to drift all over the place gender wise, fundamentally with respect to society. Yes I do feel better with validation. As for Charlize's: 'I doubt at times that I will be fully any gender' - I know I am fully a gender for moments in time, but I think there is a lot of truth in the statement.

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6 hours ago, Charlize said:

 I doubt at times that i will fully be any gender. 

Same. I know who I am on the inside and who I would be if I could choose, but I feel trapped in my own body and like I can't live authentically. 

I'm not in despair so much as just confused. I know who I am but I don't know what the right decision is.

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I love everyone at Laura's Playground.

Also, the new Ayreon album is the best music I have heard in a long time.

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It was D&D on Saturday, electorlysis and a BBQ with friends on Sunday, and had some friends over on Monday before we went out to eat. I am EXHAUSTED!!! But happy,

It could have only been better if my girlfriend was here with me. 

 

 

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Your electrolysis place does BBQ too!  I'm jealous.

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38 minutes ago, MarcieMarie12 said:

It was D&D on Saturday, electorlysis and a BBQ with friends on Sunday, and had some friends over on Monday before we went out to eat. I am EXHAUSTED!!! But happy,

It could have only been better if my girlfriend was here with me. 

 

 

Others that play D&D??  Yay!!!!

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Two years ago when my kitchen was re-modeled I moved my refrigerator from one side of the kitchen to the other.  This morning while I was attempting to get something out of the refrigerator I had a small accident and a big mess because the doors open so that I have to back into my laundry room to close the refrigerator door to take food to the kitchen sink and I tripped on a pile of laundry and went tail over teakettle with a pot of soup in my hands.  The good thing was that in cleaning up the mess (I was unhurt except for my dignity) I saw how I could re-mount the doors so they would open the other way and get to the sink and go back and close the refer door.  Where has my head been all this time??

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On 5/29/2017 at 9:00 PM, Jani423 said:

Your electrolysis place does BBQ too!  I'm jealous.

I wish, though there are couple BBQ places nearby.  The BBQ was in the evening.  

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Guests coming over in 5 minutes, oh no your ceiling fan looks dirty, just turn it on, no one will notice :?

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We received a couple more inches on top of the 3 we got the other night.  In Boston they were reporting it was the first time in 14 years there has been a white Christmas.  I made sure I filled my bird feeders last night for the ones that don't fly south.  I hope everyone has a nice day doing whatever pleases you!  

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We're getting another 3 to 5 inches right now! Colder starting tomorrow.

 

Lots of love,

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On 07/12/2017 at 1:55 PM, CyndiRae said:

Guests coming over in 5 minutes, oh no your ceiling fan looks dirty, just turn it on, no one will notice :?

 

It's a fact well known by the supermarkets, who put the lines they want to sell at eye level. When playing hide and seek I found it best to hide very low or very high :D

 

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On 12/7/2017 at 6:55 AM, CyndiRae said:

Guests coming over in 5 minutes, oh no your ceiling fan looks dirty, just turn it on, no one will notice :?

 

Until the movement of the fan knocks the dust butterflies loose and they land in someone's hair or food.:blink:

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