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Michelle L. Rogers is a transgender female from Chattanooga, TN. She has been out as trans female since October 2018. She is retired from the computer industry and is the author of the book Trans Right.
Being transgender hasn’t been easy. In the ‘80s and ‘90s though activism by the trans community and outreach to the general public made out existence a bit easier. But it is estimated that around forty percent of our citizens are close minded authoritarians who don’t deal well with change. It happens that many of these people are in state legislatures and even in Congress. While the general public has grown more accepting of LGBTQ people the super conservatives have decided to attack with anti-transgender legislation. Michelle L. Rogers is a conservative who is also a trans woman. She is frightened by what’s happening and urges everyone to watch their backs.
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Being transgender hasn’t been easy. In the ‘80s and ‘90s through activism by the trans community and outreach to the general public made our existence a bit easier. But it is estimated that around forty percent of our citizens are close minded authoritarians who don’t deal well with change. It happens that many of these people are in state legislatures and even in Congress. While the general public has grown more accepting of LGBTQ people the super conservatives have decided to attack us with anti-transgender legislation. Michelle L. Rogers is a conservative who is also a trans woman. She is frightened by what’s happening and urges everyone to watch their backs.
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Last week we published part 1 of Michelle Roger’s report on her experience with breast implants. She was tired of having to wear breast forms to fill out her bra. While they did get her occasional positive comments it was a hassle that she didn’t want to deal with anymore. After she transitioned to living fulltime as a woman she grew more focused on getting implants. Today we present part two of her quest for her own breasts.
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Michelle Rogers was tired of having to wear breast forms to fill out her bra. While they did get her occasional positive comments it was a hassle that she didn’t want to deal with anymore. After she transitioned to living fulltime as a woman she grew more focused on getting implants. Today we present part one of her quest for her own breasts.
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Michelle Rogers is not a comedy club comic. Working the comedy club circuit getting the laughs. No, she’s no Jerry Seinfeld but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have some funny ideas from time to time. Ideas she hopes you find amusing, that can bring a smile or even a LOL. These are the jokes, folks!
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Michelle Rogers takes a shot at the self-help gurus who insist people who really want it can do anything. She illustrates that opinion with examples of things transgender people can’t do.
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Passing. At times the community can become focussed on passing. And most of us go through the obsession with passing phase. Admittedly, in some areas of the U.S. passing is more important than in other areas. Our Contributor Michelle Rogers lives in one of those not-so tolerant areas. In her blog today she takes a look at herself and grades her performance in the passing game.
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Michelle Rogers is scared. She lives in a red state that has passed several laws aimed at oppressing the transgender community. She worries that the laws will interfere with her getting hormones, and block her ability to have GRS. Maybe she will be forced to detransition. Michelle is a conservative but the GOP’s attacks on trans people have her worried. She has pondered what could be done and her suggestion is sue the SOBs.
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Michelle Rogers is concerned about the attacks on transgender people that have blossomed all around the country. The religious right wing are introducing anti-transgender bills in the red states and right-wing politicians are fanning the flames. What can be done to defend transgender rights? Michelle has some thoughts on the problem.
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Michelle Rogers is a trans woman who identifies as conservative. She was appalled by the Nashville school shooting and further concerned that the shooter’s transgender male identity might give more power to the right-wing attacks on trans people, both in legislatures and on the streets.
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Michelle Rogers writes about the changes, physical and mental, that transition brings. She illustrates them with examples from her own gender journey.
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TGForum contributor Michelle Rogers interviews her therapist Anna Lisa Derenthal. Ms. Derenthal is one of the leaders in providing mental health care for transgender people in the mid-South.
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This article explores some of the same issues that Michelle discussed in an earlier article about being alone as a transgender person. However, while this piece has some personal insights, it is more of a general look at a similar but distinct situation for the overall transgender community. That makes it worth a separate article.
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Michelle Rogers has a dream. She’d love to find a bordello that catered to trans women. She finds social media apps unhelpful and focused on beautiful young people. What do you do when you’re old and not that lovely? Read on and see what she would like to see in a trans woman focused establishment.
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Michelle Rogers is a conservative but she has had it. It is obvious that the continual attacks on transgender persons in the political arena by the Religious Right are aimed at one of our rights after another. Their attacks have no basis if facts but are all “fake news” meant to rile people up over the existence of transgender people. Today Michelle expresses how she feels up the continual introduction of bills designed to make life harder for trans people than it already is.
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The news if full of trans women being the victims of violence. Often fatal violence. All women have to remain vigilant when they are out in public. Night or day, there are bad people out there and many women take classes on self defense to avoid becoming a victim. What can trans women do to stop an attack against them? Michelle Rogers enumerates various tactics and weapons that can be employed to remain safe.
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Guest contributor Michelle Rogers believes that transgender people need a national organization so that they have a the clout to deal with important issues that affect trans people. She envisions a membership based organization that could apply pressure where needed to change the general public’s attitudes toward us. But who would be able to join and how would the organization be led?
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Michelle L. Rogers transitioned later in life and having lived a male lifestyle for a long while has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to adopting a feminine lifestyle. There is so much that women learn by growing up from childhood experiencing all that goes with the traditional female role. Trying to be the best woman she can be Michelle learns that It’s Not Easy Being She.
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