This morning, I got the biggest surprise phone call of my life so far. To my sheer shock and surprise, they moved my bottom surgery from next week to this week. I did not expect them to move it up this close to my surgical date. I was not prepped for this, but I'm all for it. LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
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Coworkers have starting teasing me about my hair because I've been growing it out. Say it looks like Gene Wilder's (it does). But, like, Gene Wilder is awesome?
Another coworker says I look like Timothy shalomet (I don't), and he sure is pretty. Do they just think I have a magical Wonka aura?
Anyway, I take this as evidence that my hair is reaching outside the bounds of Acceptable Male Gender Expression, so the enforcement is now taking place. That's good I guess.
One of them asked me if I ever want to be a woman, and I said sometimes.
I mean, some of these people have seen me off work with makeup, earrings, hair styled, and femme clothes, and they still don't get it lol. The cis really do be oblivious sometimes.
They just think I'm "fashionable" lmao
went away for the state enforced Christian holiday, interacted with a heap of people and felt constantly treated like a guy, I kept feeling like everyone was about to call me the name I stopped using five years ago, I started doing it in my head, and having dreams about it
good reminder to not go anywhere I guess. sorry for sadposting, i'm fine
Wanted to see if I could find some kind of support group for transfems in my city so I could maybe build some kind of social network for myself.
Despite my city frequently being in the top 10 most queer cities of my state, there were only 2 possible monthly meet-ups I could attend as a transfem. One was for only for trans people in their 20s which means I'd be out of the range within the next year, and the other was for all gender diverse individuals 18 or older.
Both of these left me with that dreaded feeling that comes with starting my transition later in life. Ngl I feel kinda alienated by how young these skew and I'm a bit wary. I might go anyway to the 20s group while I still can and I'll see about the other one. Hopefully at least one of these leads to something positive.
oh my god
i was on a discord call with like 2 queer friends last night. Girl name, she/her pronouns. I had earlier used that one nicer shampoo/conditioner that I've been leaving around my shower for god knows how long so this time my hair looked really good? Mid length, "masculine" cut but something about the way my headphones acted as a headband almost made my hair look really nice? My friend even noticed and commented on how she loved my hair
I spent like half an hour just kind of zoning out of the call looking at myself on the screen and for the first time I actually... felt nice. Like, I actually liked what I saw, I was visibly happy with myself. I ended up taking 5 selfies on that call and for the first time in my life I did that because I actually wanted to
still cis tho
Preening on the screen view of a video call is such a good vibe.
Video calls can smooth things out and really make us look fem and pretty right? Blows my mind sometimes haha I should take more pictures
yeah, I actually ended up taking more photos of my computer screen than myself because that's where i looked nicer. big shoutout to discord for putting up the femme filter for me apparently
This week I am practicing waving at people and saying hello, instead of nodding at people and saying hello, as a form of greeting at work. I am told nodding is a Dude Gesture, which must be a Command & Conquer reference else it's completely illogical.
What other secretly gendered gestures and shit do I still have after so long? Honestly this whole "gender" thing seems kinda fuckin stupid sometimes.
i spend a lot of time analyzing cis women's gender expression to figure out new cues i hadn't considered. i literally just stopped doing the nod like a year ago after transitioning for half a decade now
I'm only stopping after nine years :) I have too much autism to do analysis lol, to neurotypicals I probably read like some kind of genderfreak, which tbh is sort of rad. Random people at my bluecollar job will use "they" for me totally unprompted.
people would they/them me a whole bunch when i first integrated into this new group. i think cis people would rather short circuit than ask someone what they prefer
To be completely fair, I once had a guy in an elevator ask me "hey so are you a guy or a girl?" and I was so floored I couldn't even be snarky. Cis people SUCK at asking, lol.
I refuse to correct them until they get their shit together, Idk. They can wonder and be confused, fuck em. My gender is Fear Incarnate!
they say going on e is going to make you cry a bunch and honestly that sounds really nice i need some hormone assisted crying rn
It’s so wonderful ngl. The change in feeling emotion is like night and day. I still refer to my old self as being an emotional brick. Nowadays, I feel a full gamut of emotions. It’s commonly said, but it rings true. It’s like when someone puts glasses on for the first time. The world is a much more beautiful place than it was before.
down with cis
Gettin cisphobic with it
You're late motherfucker!!!
Sorry late loving Skeletor this time.
i shaved my sideburns
no more plausible deniability, I wanna try female hormonal chemistry
duct taping an epilator to the wall so i can do my back like a bear scratching themselves on a fucking tree
if brevity is the soul of wit then this autistic transfemme got to be the dumbest girl on earth. i literally cannot stop posting/talking
Relatable mood!!!
reading the trans mega just make me go because i still feel like someone that lost the ''gender train'' or something like that idk
God has made no mistake. He gave the artist the perfect canvas and gave her all of the tools; Everything she needed to make her masterpiece. I was born to be an autistic trans girl
It’s official. I’m currently in the waiting room of the hospital waiting to be taken back for my bottom surgery. I am out of my mind happy and nervous at the same time. Nice things like this aren’t supposed to happen to me. And yet here we are. It feels like a dream ;w;
Experiencing high anxiety that coincides with estrogen peaks :/ maybe I just need to adjust my dose. Ofc there's a small part of me that is quite scared that I wasn't "meant" for estrogen and I was all wrong about being trans. (Sorry i have been anxious about this for the last while on here :/)Then I have moments where I see old pictures of me as a guy and I'm like who tf is that that looks TERRIBLE and I absolutely never want to be him again. It's so confusign
I know I shouldn't care about the opinions of cis people so much BUT there's this one cis woman I know who is always so nice about me being trans. She complimented my hair and said I had good color coordination and later recommended a local sapphic group to me. Getting gender affirmation from cis women is the best feeling in the world :3
Update: I’m officially in recovery at the hospital. Everything went extremely well. Took way less time than I expected. I just didn’t update sooner cause I was so doped up on pain meds that everything I said would trail off into nonsense.
Always love when I wake up and see there's 20+ new comments in the trans mega
FIRST AWW YEAH, the fruits of getting up at 7am for work.
Great week, superb posting, thanks again for having me ❤
I'm starting to see misogyny around the site and it's starting to concern me. Just seems casual and here and there, but it's getting upvoted, which concerns the hell out of me.
Ayo @[email protected] real? I'd only seen a couple scuffed comments on some of the "woke booba" posts, dang. We hate to see it.
There’s been a few that I’ve been able to sus out and had to report most of them. Fortunately they’ve all been removed. Some are “ironic” misogyny which isn’t funny, others are just misogyny, which is less funny. Specifically that one dating post was a minefield. The first thing I saw was the op pissing on polyam folks. That pissed me off. But there were a few in there that had me wanting to retch.
That dating post killed me, soon as I saw "cishet man zone" I was like oh boy... Glad now that I skipped it after reading the OP. Did you know that polyam people ackshually have it easy & are eating the dating market alive?????
That shit pissed me off so much. It was just a toxic, thoughtless thread of poison that I’m surprised didn’t get wholly removed. The one post that really bothered me was some dude saying that western women were broken. That really just screams to me sexpat and misogynist. Piece of garbage.
It’s so fucking hard finding cute girls as a sapphic trans woman (?), I mean cute girls are EVERYWHERE but for some reason they either want a secondary with their boyfriend, don’t want to be with pre-op trans women, or are taken and content, or treat me like crap
Where do I even find more? Should I even try and find more? People say that love is something you shouldn’t look for and you should just be content being single, but I’ve done that for ages and the result was me passively accepting a relationship that I didn’t really like and/or just never going out of my shell
Hey I know right. I am bi myself but maybe it's just cause I'm early transition... idk NOBODY is interested in me. Not cis or trans people. Not NB's. Guys are interested but they are chaser guys and just really want to fuck. I had one girl interested in me for 5 seconds while she was drunk but we met up sober and she seemed disappointed. Idk. I know how you feel ❤️ I'm sorry
The realisations I've had over the last few weeks that I actually pass is giving me a dangerous amount of confidence
My mom gave me kohl, which is like an eyeliner over here, because it's Sunnah, anyhow 👁🗨👄👁🗨
Cab driver guy gendered me and my wife as "girls". This usually wouldn't be that notable, except that My Brother In Christ, I was wearing my work uniform, unkempt and worse than zero effort, not even trying voicewise.
Was cab driver guy doing a bit, or is this the definition of winning? I know it's kinda brainwormed to be suspicious when people gender you correctly, but I tend to expect that my voice will out me most days, but uh it hasnt happened. I feel both extremely satisfied and somewhat confused. Actually I can't even remember the last time I got gendered wrong, gotta be more than a year ago by now. I'm the scary gender-apathetic dyke I always wished to be...
I got a call back this morning from the Patient Advocate revolving around that mess from last week.
CW: Transphobia/Talk about bottom surgery
They called me this morning and told me that they themselves had no real power. They then told me that they would refer the case to the doctor’s supervisor at the clinic I went to for further review. Just a few minutes ago, I received a call from his supervisor. Surprisingly, it was also my general practitioner. He told me that it was unacceptable and told me that it was likely that he was using dictation software. However, considering the frequency and certain ordering of things in the document that it was unlikely it was on accident. He asked if I wanted a call back after he spoke to him tomorrow and I agreed. I’m hoping action is taken, but it’s unlikely.
I honestly wish this whole thing would just go away now. I hate thinking about it. I hate everything about it and it’s poisoning the happiness I should be feeling right now for my bottom surgery next week. This document was going to be kept for a keepsake because it was the final hurdle to get to the surgery aside from just walking into the hospital.
I feel like shit and just want to cry over it. I just wish there were more I could do. But I don’t think I have any protections in this state. I just wish it never happened already. Why do people have to be like this?
Got my shit zapped some more today! She turned it down a little bit because I had a lot of welting last time. Sosososooso excited to be done shaving forever.