A phone call to Sophie’s office at PSU led her to help an alumnus who had spent years identifying as a crossdresser for years but was feeling there was more to it. They were becoming aware that perhap they were transgender and wanted help. Sophie gave them personal counseling and as she did she remembered when she was in need of help.
Allison McDonald writes about the connection between fashion and raves. It’s more than just looking good. It’s about feeling good on your journey of self-discovery. Llet women’s rave clothing be your guide to a more authentic and fulfilling life.
Guest Contributor Ayre Kar asks Who Are We? She’s fairly sure she is a woman but there are questions. Is she the result of a genetic dysfunction? She likes women so is she a lesbian?
Amanita contributed to TGForum with an advice column titled Ask Amanita. She is a gender counselor and activist who advocates for the transgender community. Her spouse is a trans woman. This post is about how her wife’s transition, which Amanita fully supported, caused changes in their social standing in their community. How they had to make new friends when the old ones retreated, and how much the discrimination hurts. Share this post with any cisgender allies.
Our Retro Rerun today is from 1998. Diane Hutchison wrote about her battle with gender dysphoria. She describes how she felt when she was presenting herself to the world as a male but feeling feminine longing, and how painful it was to try and hide her true nature from family and friends.
Kandi Robbins spent many years in the closet using many strategies to cope with the stress of hiding her feminine side. Work and being a good husband and father took up a lot of time. Time that she could push aside the desire that came from deep inside. After she came out people have asked her how she coped with the stress. She tells you in today’s post.
Fantasia Fair is a conference, convergence, trans event that is a week-long held in Provincetown, Massachusetts every October. This year FanFair became TransWeek. The gathering on Cape Cod has been happening since 1975. Attendees have all week to be themselves and participate in planned and unplanned activities. There are speeches, dancing, whale watching and more to fill the week. Today Rhonda Williams reviews everything that happened if TransWeek 2022.
Sophie Lynne is working on getting a graduate degree at Penn State. That’s a hard lift and studies tend to take up most of one’s time. And the stress is a bigger load than the homework. So Sophie needs to de-stress and she turns to an activity that has worked for her in the past.
Christy Lewis feels that due to the pandemic restrictions people have spent too much time homebound and remote in the previous two years. She has hopes of a return to a domesticated state in which they are warm, humane, and genuine.
In this post Sophie answers the questions she posted last week, ones she asked herself in 2010. Take a look and see if you find yourself asking similar questions in your alone time. Some of Sophie’s answers may be applicable to your situation.
Summer has always been Sophie’s favorite time of year. Not just because it’s warm and you get enough sun to create the vitamin D your body needs. Summer was the time when her parents and older brother would go to their vacation home and Sophie stayed so she could work at the hamburger place. During that alone time she dressed in women’s clothes as often as she could.
Kandi takes a look at why it is that she is so happy when expressing her feminine side. Part of it is simple, Kandi is the side who has no responsibilities except being pretty, wearing pretty clothes, and enjoying it all. The other has all the responsibility.
If you are a male who is attracted to the idea of wearing clothing meant for women, along with make up and wigs and all the accessories, no doubt at some point you’ve felt guilt and shame. You felt that way because our culture doesn’t all a man to be pretty. We know it’s frowned upon but it’s not the man who wants to be lovely who should be ashamed. Misha Monroe has thoughts on why it’s okay to explore your femininity.
We welcome a new blogger today. Cisgender woman Liberty Storer writes about her experience being the partner of a crossdresser. In 2014 she learned that the new guy she had met, a retired SWAT commander, enjoyed wearing sexy lingerie, stripper shoes, and corsets. Though shocked by it she wasn’t repelled and instead started doing research and writing about the subject.
I am a woman. Now you can get a dictionary and argue that I am not. You can run a DNA test and argue that I am not. You can ask a doctor and argue that I am not. And I am not interested in arguing with you. Allow me to make a analogy. Was […]
Don’t ever call Misha Monroe a “man in a dress”. Presenting to the world as a sexy woman takes a lot of practice. Learning how to do your makeup, working on your figure through diet and exercise, and understanding how to coordinate an outfit — it’s a lot of work. But when you put the finishing touc on your look it’s all worthwhile and no one should dismiss you as a “man in a dress”.
Allow me to vent here. This is being written in the lobby of the hotel that is hosting The Keystone Conference. At the conference, I chat and talk with many people. Many from different parts of the country, many different age groups and many that are dealing with all of “this” in various ways. One […]
After the stress of her sister’s wedding Savannah is glad to just relax and unwind at her mother’s house. With a few more days of her trip home still pending she wants to enjoy visiting with her mother and not thinking about her return to work as a male. Then a conversation with her mother brings up the idea of getting treatment for her male “condition.”
Sophie Lynne participated in Penn State University’s Transgender Day of Remembrance. While she read the names of trans people who were killed for being trans she began to think about the many trans people she knows. Either in person or online. And she recalls how she felt when she was not living her true life/
Christy Lewis writes about finding your comfort zone. While feminine fashions, at least for dress up occasions, aren’t the most physically comfortable attire, in Christy’s case, and that of many other trans people, those clothes put her in her comfort zone.
Like many part time ladies Julie Slowinski balances her responsibilities as a father and bread winner with her need to dress up and be a party girl. Today’s report from Julie is not the usual rundown of what she wore and where she went while wearing it. It’s a look at that balancing act and why she is content being dad and being Julie. And don’t worry, she manages to get some photos into the post.
Jennifer can’t believe that she has met an amazing woman who seems to want to be with her. From the afternoon when she came out to the pool and sat next to Jennifer wearing a barely there string bikini to the way she quickly agreed to go out for dinner, she was everything Jennifer thought she would never have a chance at. Then, after a perfect day that was capped with making love, suddenly Amy jumped out of bed and locked herself in the bathroom. What, why? Read on.
We got the following press release from a new organization in Saskatchewan, Canada. URPride Centre for Sexuality and Gender Diversity is a Regina based Pride organization in Saskatchewan, Canada. Although we’re based in the University of Regina, we work all over Saskatchewan! Our Mission is to set the foundation for a safer, healthier, and more […]
Savannah disappears for Kenny’s senior year of high school. Her friends and the fella she was dating wonder where she went and why they don’t hear from her. Kenny keeps his nose to the grindstone and studies hard. All the while missing his life as Savannah. Will things get better in college? Who will be attending? Kenny or Savannah?
