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I'd just like to report in and I actually got my F64.0 diagnosis in late March and I've been on HRT for bit over a week now! I feel really light and pretty good, tho I've become heavy sleeper and I'm hungry like all the time. :'D

As for literature, there's a really good book I've read called "Poika" (literally means "Boy" in Finnish), written by Marja Bj?rk but I don't think it has been translated into English... It's about a trans guy who has super unsupportive family.
 
I'd just like to report in and I actually got my F64.0 diagnosis in late March and I've been on HRT for bit over a week now! I feel really light and pretty good, tho I've become heavy sleeper and I'm hungry like all the time. :'D

As for literature, there's a really good book I've read called "Poika" (literally means "Boy" in Finnish), written by Marja Bj?rk but I don't think it has been translated into English... It's about a trans guy who has super unsupportive family.

That's great news! Congratulations. uvu

And Tina, that would be really cool. o: Do you have stuff already published under your pen name that we can check out, or is it all online stuff?
 
I have work published, but I'm not planning to give my pen name out just yet. Maybe in future I will.
 
There is actually a lot of LGBT literature out there. There are various indie publishers dedicated to it. To find it, you need to look outside of the big book shops and mainstream literature and look into smaller publishing houses. The quality isn't always as good unfortunately - and my biggest peeve with them is that they often lack a plot beyond the LGBT aspect of the story. After you've read a couple dozen of them they all start to blend together.

One book I'd recommend is Edinburgh by Alexander Chee. But it is a heavy read. It's a coming-of-age story that focuses on a boy, Fee, who was molested as a child by his choir director, and how he grows-up struggling with the trauma from that experience. It spans across many years, starting from age twelve and continuing for over a decade, IIRC.

If you're more into fantasy / sci-fi, then I'd recommend the Wraeththu books by Storm Constantine. It's a post-apocolayptic story about a hermaphroditic race. The first book, The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, involves the protagonist, a human boy named Pellaz, being taken away from his family and being transformed into a member of this new race and his ascent into their hierarchy.

There are more I could recommend, but some of the scenes are incredibly explicit and I don't feel it would be appropriate to post them here. But if anyone's into fantasy I've got a great recommendation involving shape shifters - but I don't feel comfortable giving it's title out on an all-ages forum like this (so PM me if you're interested!). I also write LGBT stories and scripts, published under a pen name, and if anyone's interested I could put some of the unpublished cleaner ones up somewhere online to read for free.

ooh ok. ill be sure to look into these.


I'd just like to report in and I actually got my F64.0 diagnosis in late March and I've been on HRT for bit over a week now! I feel really light and pretty good, tho I've become heavy sleeper and I'm hungry like all the time. :'D

As for literature, there's a really good book I've read called "Poika" (literally means "Boy" in Finnish), written by Marja Bj?rk but I don't think it has been translated into English... It's about a trans guy who has super unsupportive family.

good luck!

alsooo check this out: http://www.blackandpink.org/pen-pals/
i think im kinda too young but still this is super neat
 
Interesting video to watch.
I heard that a trans woman got killed lately, so that's really a bummer :/ It happened yesterday, too.
 
;___; I feel so bad for the trans people who get killed.
One of my sisters would probably go trans, but her mom ( not my mom, she's my half sister ) doesn't approve.


Anyways, I questioned my sexuality a while back, and decided that I'm straight, but maybe bi.
 
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oh the trials and tribulations of falling in love with a straight girl.

I guess you can't help you fall in love with. Sometimes I wish I could. Sometimes I feel like I'm just being cruel and torturing her with some of my more sincere and intense feelings.

I'm mean.
 
oh the trials and tribulations of falling in love with a straight girl.

I guess you can't help you fall in love with. Sometimes I wish I could. Sometimes I feel like I'm just being cruel and torturing her with some of my more sincere and intense feelings.

I'm mean.

I feel you. I like girls irl but they think I'm a chick so I know I have no chance since all of them are straight. Did you tell her or? But you can't help crushes, they just happen.
 
oh the trials and tribulations of falling in love with a straight girl.

I guess you can't help you fall in love with. Sometimes I wish I could. Sometimes I feel like I'm just being cruel and torturing her with some of my more sincere and intense feelings.

I'm mean.

My sister ( who's lesbian ) told me that she developed crushes on all of her friends, and most of the time, you just have to get over them and find someone else.
I know what it feels like to have your heartstrings pulled when the other person doesn't see the same way you do.
 
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I feel you. I like girls irl but they think I'm a chick so I know I have no chance since all of them are straight. Did you tell her or? But you can't help crushes, they just happen.

Yeah. We've worked though this. I completely understand, but sometimes I feel a bit bad.
 
Interesting video to watch.
I heard that a trans woman got killed lately, so that's really a bummer :/ It happened yesterday, too.

I honestly cannot understand this community. "Ugh I'm so tired of allies" I hear from the LGB side and now this lady (at 4:05) says we have to be allies? I thought the community was tired of allies and now we're supposed to be that? What?

7:40 - "If you're cis you're also probably part of the problem." I'm sorry but screw her. I'm not part of this problem, she can piss off.
 
one random person with a camera and a YouTube account does not speak for an entire community
 
The community is hard to understand. Because some don't believe in certain groups, some hate allies, some are too radical, some are ignorant. It's just weird.
 
The ally thing baffles me tbh. I do agree that there are "allies" who harm more than they help (one kid at my school comes to mind), but we shouldn't be lumping them in with people who genuinely want to help.

I've been trying to make the message have more substance, but this is the only thing I can say that makes sense to me. I will say that most of the allies I have met have been fairly good about actually being allies, although they do focus on things that get more focus than, say, trans issues. I've found this to be more of a community at large problem than just an ally thing, though.
 
a bit unrelated but i think that the acronym "mogii" (Marginalized Orientations, Gender Identities, and Intersex) is a good replacement for both the lgbtq acronym and the word queer in general, taking down the problem of straight people complaining about the ""long acronym"" and the fact that queer is still a slur even if reclaimed and should only be a self-identifier (and not used by straight people). what do you all think?
 
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