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You should use whichever voice best represents the real you.

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Lisa

That is awful that they force you to be in the paper for six weeks. Talk about putting you in danger! I really can't believe that. I hope to Gawd that I don't have to do that here in California! ...

Hi all!

I did it! I went over to my brother's apartment (which he shares with his girlfriend, who put this all together). They had pajama costumes and they had one dress. She said I could wear...

Hi all!

I'm going to a sing-along version of the musical Grease this evening with my brother's girlfriend and a few other people. We're going to be wearing costumes (like so many others would in...

I do not like the term sissy. In it's most common form, it refers to a man in woman's clothing and I do not identify as a man. Thus, for me, the term is entirely a misnomer in any of its senses.
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Betty --

I"m so glad that you and your friend are okay. It's always nice to hear a reminder that people out there can be civil towards us. Thanks so much for sharing!

Hugs,
Lisa

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Here's a pic of my left ear -- can't get them both with my cellphonecam. Oh well.

http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=46517&stc=1&d=1178329517

Hugs,
Lisa

I am surprised. I thought my parents and I would have words about my new piercings, but my mother actually had nice things to say! She asked a few probing questions (like why both) and I just said...

I now have an 18g sterling silver ring with a small hematite ball on each ear (small things). I asked for studs (at three different places all of which I had researched, tattoo/piercing parlors, I...

Ericka, that's wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing and giving the rest of us a boost of hope!

Hugs,
Lisa

I want to go out en femme because I don't want to have to be lonely (meaning totally alone) to be myself. I want to feel like I'm being real to people.

I will admit, though, that I suspect I will...

I admire your guts! I hope to find someday that I have guts too. I am thinking about going to the movies as a way of going out en femme for the first time (other then that Halloween party last...

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I like the idea of leaving reading materials around (though you may wish to leave them somewhere your son won't read them, if that's the policy of the house).

I have not told my family...

Hi Michelle

I'm going through isolation, too. I don't think it's healthy but I know that it's what I need right now. There does come a time in some people's lives when this really is the best...

I would be like Rory Gilmore from Gilmore Girls. She's smart, kind, stylish, feminine, confident, beautiful, and more -- but still feminine. She doesn't seem to view her femininity as negative and...

When life hands me a lemon, I try to do my best to add vodka and make a "lemon drop".

Seriously, though, hold your head up high. If they notice again, smile at them and give them a little wave....

Hi everyone

I think I might have hit on something (or at least come to understand or acknowledge something old lol).

I think that what I seek is not so much to understand what I am, per se,...

My mother knows something is up. She was probing me (about a month or so back), asking "are you sure everything's allright" and "are you sure you're not keeping any secrets".

So, that's what...

The news appears to be good. :phew: :rolleyes: My mother asked me while we were having dinner why I was receiving the dance catalog and all I said was "never underestimate the power of marketers."...

Trannie T, thanks for making me crack up!

Actually, my sister did ballet for years and years (I think she still does off and on) and my parents might think it was for her (if they didn't check...

Is there a pale face smilie for when something happens that drains the color in your face? Discount Dance (www.discountdance.com) just sent their latest catalog to my parents home, where I live. ...

No, it doesn't change my personality. It simply sets free the rest of it. :D

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Lisa

G - well said!

You said what I'm too nice to say. :heehee:

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Lisa

It's hard for me to let go of it, too. What's holding me back from having the life I want, though, is not understanding what gender I am. I don't need to know the whole etiology of it (at least not...

In the first part of the book, DSM-IV-TR (2000) anyway, on page xvi, it says that one of the individuals in the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Text Revision Work Group (i.e. the group in charge...