Jump to content
  • Welcome to the TransPulse Forums!

    We offer a safe, inclusive community for transgender and gender non-conforming folks, as well as their loved ones, to find support and information.  Join today!

I May Have Gotten Myself Into Something A Little More Than I Was Looking For


VickySGV

Recommended Posts

  • Admin

I had received information that there was a Trans* Support Group that was meeting only a few blocks from where I live in the hall of a church that is welcoming to LGBT folks.  The church address is used as the address of an LGBT Community Center.  After trying to E-mail them over a couple of months and getting no response I stopped by the church and asked at its office about the Community Center and was told that a Regional Pride organization rents space for evening meetings from the church, but that they were not on the site during the day and were strictly tenants along with a few other groups.  The church secretary did take my personal card and gave me the web site address which belongs to the parent organization.  I went to their web-site at home and found that while it mentioned the day one place, just below on the time of the next meeting it gave a different date than the Thursday it was supposed to be.  Of course I went on the date it showed, and found out the meeting had been the night before. :doh1:  By this point, my old detective habits of tracing down organizations kicked me in the tush, and I made a last try at phoning the one phone number on the web-site, but some twist of fate it was answered by a real person, who had gotten my business card at the church, and who told me he had asked another "Board Member" to contact me several days before, but I had not gotten the response.  My business card is an attempt to do some consulting for a variety of groups that would like to include Trans* Folks in things and looks better than it really is just now.  I told the man a little bit about my history and what I was interested in, and he promised to e-mail the other people he had shown the card to immediately and tell them about my desire to get to know them.  He did check and even to his surprise found the date confusion on the site. 

About  20 minutes after I talked to him I did get his E-mail to the others, but his opening line nearly floored me.

Quote

I would like to tell you folks that I think I have found a new Facilitator for the Transgender Support meeting!!

That was not quite what I had talked to him about, but the thought does not scare too badly.  A few hours later, one of the other mail recipients actually got back to me and invited me to their monthly leadership meeting in July which is on a date I can handle.  I just have this feeling that maybe the facilitator for the Trans* group is not Trans* which could cause a problem.  I did go to a service project they were doing for a youth group that was putting on a Queer High School Graduates party and the folks are nice enough, but I can see some ot the group's little weak points.  What the hell am I getting myself into.  I just wanted to go to a group meeting once a month.  WTH.

Link to comment
  • Root Admin

What do they say? "My drill sergeant told me never to volunteer!" (No, I wasn't in any armed forces, just quoting something).;)

Link to comment
  • Admin

Life is an adventure, Vicky, or a box of chocolates, or, um, something or other.  :blink:  In any case, if things get weird you can always back away.  Good luck, hon!

Carolyn Marie

Link to comment
  • Forum Moderator

Vicky I can't think of a better person to give this apparently disorganized group the guidance and organization they need. So many of us have anxiety issues it doesn't take much for people to become disheartened with a group and drift away. Don't know how good it's going to be for you but  I'm sure you will be a true Godsend for the group

Hugs

Johnny

Link to comment
Guest Laura Beth

I was one of the first to discuss the idea of a Trans support group locally with a LGBT group. But I never found out anything more about it for a few months. The organizers said they were trying to find a place to have it and were waiting to hear back from a one place which was the church where they hold the meetings at. I don't attend the meetings on a regular basis because of the leadership and how they run it. There is nothing planned a head of time unless they are showing a movie then discussing it afterwards. Either wise everyone is doing their own thing and they talk about what ever. But I have found that I am not the only one who doesn't attend the group much. 

Link to comment

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Who's Online   7 Members, 0 Anonymous, 147 Guests (See full list)

    • MaryEllen
    • Karen Carey
    • Ashley0616
    • Ivy
    • Willow
    • MaeBe
    • Carolyn Marie
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Forum Statistics

    • Total Topics
      80.5k
    • Total Posts
      767.2k
  • Member Statistics

    • Total Members
      11,940
    • Most Online
      8,356

    Raelyn
    Newest Member
    Raelyn
    Joined
  • Today's Birthdays

    1. **Angela Charlotte **
      **Angela Charlotte **
    2. Carlie
      Carlie
      (63 years old)
    3. Cbxshawn
      Cbxshawn
      (49 years old)
    4. HannahO
      HannahO
      (31 years old)
    5. JustKatie
      JustKatie
      (40 years old)
  • Posts

    • Ashley0616
      I guess you do have a good point. It's just hard to try and not have the same meals over and over again. 
    • Willow
      Hi   I’ll weigh in on being picky about food.  Yes, and I was brought up that way.  We didn’t have to eat everything our parents ate.  They had a number of things they ate that they figured we wouldn’t eat, an acquired taste things or one or the other didn’t like them too.   even as an adult there are many things I won’t eat.  In my defense, there are different things my wife won’t eat.   the weird thing is that after being in E, my tastes have changed.  Sweet, sour, salty or bland, if I eat or drink too much of any one thing and I have to counter act it.   Willow
    • Ashley0616
      I have shared my doses and levels a lot and no one has said anything. Yeah I put alarms on my phone to make sure I don't miss a dose. I tend to forget a lot of stuff on what needs to be done. I have been also using the calendar on my phone a lot. I missed an appointment because I didn't put it in my calendar. 
    • Ashley0616
      Feeling better than I did yesterday
    • MaeBe
      It's official. My doctor wants me retested after the last results (too high). The test, that she scheduled, was likely too close to the dose. She did tell me to keep the increased dose instead of reverting to my old one, probably because my "too high" wasn't that high. I don't know what the forum's stance is on results, knowing full well the rules against sharing dosage, so I'll keep those under wraps until I know if it's OK to share those. Less to say, it was over the range she feels comfortable with by about 50%, but taken a day earlier than the midpoint value she was expecting. Grains of salt everywhere!   Of course I messed everything up too, missing my dose for the first time, yesterday. I had to re-reschedule the lab I setup yesterday to Monday from Saturday after taking my shot this morning to avoid the same issue with the testing. I woke up and thought, "Thursday, what do I have to do for work today? OH -crap-, IT'S THURSDAY! I missed my shot yesterday!"   Anyhoo. Question for the ladies: does anyone else get a mild zen-like high after their shots/doses? My brain feels lighter and I'm happier and I feel a lot more girlie this morning. 💃
    • MaeBe
      I'm into my fourth month of HRT and just titrated up in dosage after my last checkup. This is my life. 🤭   I have yet to grow out of my B cup bras, but I have noticed more fullness, having started with gynecomastia. I am seeing less gapping in bras with my right breast, which has always been smaller than my left. My areolae are slightly pronounced/projected now, that are larger but not vastly greater in circumference, and I have noticed little to no nipple changes beyond their painful sensitivity.
    • Ashley0616
      @Ivy that is a great point! Great post!
    • Ashley0616
    • Ashley0616
      -It's not a sprint it's an endurance.  -It won't happen overnight. -Seek a gender therapist. -You might lose a lot of support but hang in there. If they truly loved and cared about you they would stay. -Retail therapy helps and plus it builds your wardrobe and shoes. -Makeup is an artwork. It takes lots of practice to do it right and watch YouTube videos on how to put it on or someone who is knowledgeable. -You are going to have roller coaster emotions so don't rush anything. 
    • Ivy
    • Ashley0616
      thrilled:  :extremely pleased and excited
    • Ashley0616
    • Ashley0616
    • Ashley0616
    • Ashley0616
      You have grown more breast tissue than most some only get one size and that is it. I went from 42C to 42DD but I'm also taking supplements. It's risky to take the supplements but to me it's worth the risk. 
  • Upcoming Events

Contact TransPulse

TransPulse can be contacted in the following ways:

Email: Click Here.

To report an error on this page.

Legal

Your use of this site is subject to the following rules and policies, whether you have read them or not.

Terms of Use
Privacy Policy
DMCA Policy
Community Rules

Hosting

Upstream hosting for TransPulse provided by QnEZ.

Sponsorship

Special consideration for TransPulse is kindly provided by The Breast Form Store.
×
×
  • Create New...