My name is sassafras and I am a 21-year-old trans/genderqueer person who has spent the last two years fighting with the medical community. To make a very long story short, I have rapidly growing tumors on my ovaries, which cause me a great deal of pain on a daily basis. At the advice of my doctors, I was scheduled to have a hysterectomy last ( Read more... )

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( 2006 TRANS-FORMING FEMINISM CONFERENCE CALL FOR PROPOSALS )

So I made a new community for anyone who identifies at MTF ("male to female"), and is of a larger stature.

I had not seen anything like this out there and thought it might be a good idea. There is not much up there yet.

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Hi folks! I posted a couple weeks ago about a project I am doing for a course called Sexual Violence in Societal Context on violence against transgender people. The project is going really well...we are presenting it on Thursday, and we're feeling very positive about the impact it will have at Earlham College, which is where I'm taking the course ( Read more... )

I'm doing a research project for a course I'm taking called Sexual Violence in Societal Context. I'm focusing on issues of violence against transgender/genderqueer/gender-variant people, and the difficulties that trans people find in getting access to services (counseling, shelter from domestic violence, education about sexuality and sexual ( Read more... )

( I know it's fairly common.. )

Well, as many of you know, this past weekend was Gay Days at Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure. While I couldn't go to the evnt, I did work both days and walked the park a bit before and after work, and I've gotta say, I could not be more disappointed. This was for a variety of reasons, but here's my number-one issue: rather than a park ( Read more... )

Just going to make a short introduction, and then I'll be back later to search this community in more detail :o) Looks like a lot of fun and a community to my own mind.

Well, I think the easiest and possibly the best way to do this is to just link to one of my profiel sites, VampireFreaks sounds good :o)

Wight's Vampirefreaks profileHope to get ( Read more... )

Okay, so last night I got into this conversation with this one girl who says "I possibly can't be transsexual because I didn't dress like a boy when I was younger." So therefore I have to ask, how old were you when you first knew? Then again this opinionated bitch doesn't know how I feel or what I have been through. So I think it's best that ( Read more... )