Month: July 2019

When your label drops off

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Hi, Earlier this month I posted about having a spot of bother in getting off to sleep…. and that was before this week’s heatwave. Still, having the air-con on a comfortable 19 made last night’s trip (in bloke mode) to Chameleons much more tolerable. Anywho, one of the things my mind was doing, was going over what I might write for a presentation in a few months. No, not work-related, but transgender outreach kinda thing. It’s not so much that I don’t know how to start it and I’ve got a brief from the organisation on what they want. It’s more… it’s more that I’m struggling a bit with the identity of saying I’m trans*. BTW, there’s a rather good […]

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“Boy or girl?”
Are they the only choices?

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Hi, It’s been said about buses that you wait for ages and then two come along at once. So it seems with training requests at Chameleons. Nothing for a few months and now, there’s three on the go. Not that I am complaining, I must add. It’s a chance to get out, try and help out would-be allies, and – if we’re lucky – top up the group’s funds a little. Balancing it all with privacy and work is the tricky part. Luckily, Val has offered to help with one of the events, bless her. I think that education is key when it comes to talking about transgender matters. It’s not just the stuff about terminology – which frankly, confuses […]

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A fistful of win

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Hi,  Last night was a meeting at Chams and through some good luck, I was fairly early. Unusually it was quite a quiet event given the high attendance last time. So it goes sometimes! As I got changed I had to go back to my you-need-to-cut-down corset. I think one too many ice creams haven’t helped and despite trying to, well, cut down a bit, I feel I’m not losing the weight yet. Must try harder. Still, at least my bloke jeans aren’t too snug, so maybe things are just going slowly. I don’t know about you, but I have some goto cosmetics that I love to use. As part of that learning process, I’ve bought a few things that […]

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A short one

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Hi, With the summer son high in the sky and no meetings today, I went to work in shorts. Well, not *just* shorts, I did wear a shirt and trainers too. Standards, darhlink, standards. 😉 Not so much a ‘dress up Thursday’ but certainly a dress down Friday. The odd thing about clothes is that there are some that feel very different and therefore make me feel different too. My skinny jeans vs bloke cut, a flowing top vs a shirt, a flowing skirt vs… well, okay, you got me. 🙂 Going back to the shorts, I noticed that as I was walking at lunch that the length (just on the knee, natch) meant I had a similar feeling to […]

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