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Posted 3 days ago

When I started hormones I weighed 135, at 5’ 10”. A year and a half later, I’m at 152.

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Posted 2 weeks ago
Businesses That Offer at Least One Transgender-Inclusive Health Care Coverage Plan So I know the HRC is pretty damn shitty to us trans folk. But this is still the best comprehensive thing I have seen with employers that offer trans* inclusive benefits.  I set a click through link to a high resolution. I’ve been meaning to make it searchable, but being in PDF format it’s gonna take more time than I have this second. A lot of these are worth a Google to find out what they really are. Like Darden Restaurants, that’s Olive Garden and Red Lobster.  If you can get a full-time job at one of these places, they will (most likely) offer GRS/SRS in the insurance plan. If you take a look here, you can see what companies have what restrictions about it. Eg, age, time on hormones, ‘real life experience’, all that bs. Hopefully this will help some of you get jobs at places that will actually do you some good. For the rest of the Corporate Equality Index, look here. Please reblog this at the least, even if you don’t care, your friends or fellow trans people might. Zoom

Businesses That Offer at Least One Transgender-Inclusive Health Care Coverage Plan

So I know the HRC is pretty damn shitty to us trans folk. But this is still the best comprehensive thing I have seen with employers that offer trans* inclusive benefits. 

I set a click through link to a high resolution.

I’ve been meaning to make it searchable, but being in PDF format it’s gonna take more time than I have this second.

A lot of these are worth a Google to find out what they really are. Like Darden Restaurants, that’s Olive Garden and Red Lobster. 

If you can get a full-time job at one of these places, they will (most likely) offer GRS/SRS in the insurance plan. If you take a look here, you can see what companies have what restrictions about it. Eg, age, time on hormones, ‘real life experience’, all that bs.

Hopefully this will help some of you get jobs at places that will actually do you some good.

For the rest of the Corporate Equality Index, look here.

Please reblog this at the least, even if you don’t care, your friends or fellow trans people might.

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Posted 3 weeks ago

Sometimes…not often…but sometimes, I feel like maybe I do have a purpose. Being transgender isn’t something almost anyone would be happy about. But it’s harder for some people than others. And it’s impossible to do something that’s so hard without having people to help you. Everyone needs an encouraging word, or a push in the right direction, or sometimes even a tough conversation.

So somebody obviously has to be there to do that for them. I’m not perfect, God not by a long shot and then some. But I guess I have been there for some people. I’m still there for some people. I’ve made a difference in their lives. I’ve given hope to people, pushed some people in the right direction and helped them make positive changes. I doubt I would ever be called the best person to do this. I hear though, that most positions aren’t filled by the people best suited, but by the people who will take the job.

I have to say, I’m glad to be able to do anything. To know that I’ve helped even one person is a gift. And it’s ridiculous, but somehow when I get at my worst, when my demons rise up, someone will say something that makes me realize there is a reason I’m here. That I’m in this position. And I can either hate that and rail against it, or I can accept it. That this is my lot in life, and there’s some bad parts, but there are also some really really good parts.

So I think I’ll choose the second option.

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Posted 3 weeks ago

$18,500 for SRS

$4,300 for labiaplasty

$6,000 for breast implants

$28,800. Awesome stuff. Really fucking awesome stuff.

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Posted 1 month ago

there’s one thing that doesn’t make an appearance in any discussions i’ve had or books i’ve read with/about trans people. what is talked about is how transition is something we have to do to be happy. the details. the difficulties. our first this, first that. passing. the happiness of coming out, the relief. the weight lifted off of our shoulders. etc

etc

etc.

but what’s never talked about is how to deal with it.

how to deal with the fact that you’re whole life, no matter what you do, no matter what surgeries, hormones, or anything else…we’re still going to be trans.

we’ll never. ever. ever. have the bodies that fit our brains. we can make changes to this wrong body. but it will never replace what we don’t have. it will never make us cis.

and it’s a hard pill to swallow. i don’t want to be trans. duh. nobody wants to be trans. not because cis people are better, but because cis people are whole. they fit. piece a attaches to piece b, and everything just works together.

i have (at best) another 50 or 60 years to live. all that time. all that time not being as happy as i would be if i were cis. there are kids that i will not give birth to. 20 years of growing up being treated like a gender that i’m not. years of transition. that i wouldn’t have lost if i were cis.

i would rather be the most hated person in the world. the most down-trodden intersected minority. if i were cis. i could handle hatred and harrassment and attacks, more than i can handle wanting to kill myself because i’m just wrong. that there is there curse, this defect, that i was born with that will forever haunt me and ruin everything i’ve ever wanted.

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Posted 1 month ago

I don’t know how I feel about Luna. I need time to process that one. It wasn’t a bad book..but I don’t know.

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Posted 1 month ago

Teen accused of threatening to shoot East Millinocket transgender student

An East Millinocket teenager has been suspended from Schenck High School and is being evaluated by juvenile court authorities after he was issued a summons for threatening a transgender student, officials said Friday.

The boy, 15, was issued a summons for terrorizing on March 5 after he allegedly threatened to shoot the 18-year-old senior, who was born female and identifies as a male, because he objected to the way the transgender student dressed, police said. The Bangor Daily News is not naming the accused boy because he is a juvenile and is not naming the transgender student because he is allegedly a victim.

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Posted 2 months ago

Just Say Yes: Are you trans*? Do you enjoy making videos? Are you under the age of 25?

or-you-never-know:

I have a long-term project (it’s the MYP project for people in the IB world), and for it, I decided to create a lesson on basic trans* stuff. It’s aimed at high school kids, so it’s super basic. It includes:

  • Basic terminology- the difference between sex and gender, definitions of trans*…

Guys, this person just sent me a message asking me to make a video. As you all know, I’m too much of a wimp for that. So I’m passing the buck to you guys. MESSAGE THIS PERSON ABOUT MAKING A VIDEO FOR THEM PLEASE.

It’s for a really good cause. A high school project aimed at educating high school students about trans* people. Can you imagine if your school had had that? If you had seen that in the 9th grade?

So please. Help them out. I’m even considering trying to get over my voice issues to help.

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Posted 2 months ago

Thinking about making two videos, compilations of every trans joke in scrubs and how I met your mother. (The two shows I really enjoy, besides the every other episode trans joke). I’m afraid to do it though, because I don’t want them to be used against trans people, and I don’t want to see the comments on the video. I can block them on youtube, but not here. I dunno. Thoughts?

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Posted 2 months ago

So I found a pair of pants I bought a long time ago, like right at the beginning of my transition. They fit fine then and now they are waaay too tight. On one hand, I’m happy that I’m gaining weight finally. On the other, I’m lamenting the fact that I am gaining weight. 

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Posted 2 months ago

it’s funny, i’ve been stressed beyond belief about my voice. i work in a call center, and every day i’d come in and freak out that i was going to be misgendered because of my voice. this morning before work, i was gonna do a bit of work, but first i took a recording of my voice as a sample. When I played it back…I sound fine. Apparently I was right. Working in a call center is actually really helpful, because every day you can work on getting it a bit higher without having to do any actual work. I’m happy. :)

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Posted 2 months ago

Its funny, when I don’t think about it, the beginning of my transition was ages ago. When I go in the mtf tag though, it feels like yesterday.

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Posted 2 months ago

Are transgender subjects being brought up in the media more now than the past few years? It feels like they are, but I’ve only been paying attention for the last two years.

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Posted 3 months ago

So I came out to my two friends here, and nobody gives a flying fuck. It’s kind of really nice. And that post yesterday about ‘finding out if i’m trans’ seems to be an unsubstantiated rumour, and my friend wasn’t really saying that to anyone. I can’t prove anything, so maybe he is a huge asshole, but I’d like to think he’s not and it was just a misunderstanding.

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Posted 4 months ago

Temple Run is enough to convince me I shouldn’t have driven home. Also, some drunk girl at the bar thought I was a guy. I’m not sure why, even her friend was like “…that’s a girl.” So its not like I come off as a guy. It really bothered me, even though my friend was just as confused as I was. I was also really drunk so I had a tough time speaking my mind.