Welcome!
The purpose of this site is to provide information and a communication
forum for people with Gender Identity issues.
Site Content
Please visit our Message Forum for Gender
Identity to help yourself and others with their gender issues.
We also have some general information
for Transsexuals for your reference, including:
Help!
Your first place to look. This
page is about getting you started finding help, depression, antidepressants,
advice on advice, and how to help yourself.
Suicide
My thoughts on this, and some resources for help in preventing this.
What it is like
Been there, done that, and some things you can do to relieve the stress
while living as your natal gender, along with some general thoughts on being
TS.
Theories
It's not your fault, or anyone else's for that matter. Includes
"Will SRS Help Me?"
and new links to the Zhou Y2000 brain research.
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to
self- confidence is preparation." -- Arthur Ashe
Beginning
Transition
"Ten ways to act on your dreams"
Kenneth
Blanchard
,
Ph.D.
, co-author of The One Minute Manager, points out that it's important to manage the journey, not just
announce the destination. Your
stating your destination is a huge, most likely terrifying, step for you. Before you do that, though, you need to be well informed, and well
prepared with some goals and a plan of action. "We don't plan to fail,
we fail to plan." Sounds like a trite quote, but it's all too often
true.
Deciding if this is right for you, things to think about before you begin,
advice for what you must to to prepare for this exciting time, and steps
to help you reach that goal.
"Ten ways to act on your dreams" is based on the inspiring
book, "Wake up calls" by Joan Lunden.
Family
Issues
This new section of the site will focus on Family Issues, as the
title says. This includes your parents and family if you're TS, being a parent
of a TS, and also, especially, things to help the children of a TS. There
is scant little information out there for TS parents, and what information
and research I find will go in this section.
Hormones
Medical resources, and some things that you should expect from the elixir
of life.
Voice
My thoughts, and links to sites and resources to help you with this most
troublesome part of transition
.
Feminization
Things to do to enhance your female persona, including presenting
as female, clothing issues, makeup,
electrolysis, and links to medical resources for facial
feminization.
"Knowing is not enough, we must apply; Willing is not enough, we
must do." - Bruce Lee
Coming
Out
Education is important, as is cultivating the relationships that are important
to you before coming out to family, friends and coworkers.
Legal
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start
today and make a new ending." --Maria Robinson
Going Full-time:
Things to do, and resources for changing documents and preparing yourself.
Full Time:
My experiences and advice as you begin to live as yourself.
Pre-Op Preparation:
What to do, when to do it, and what to bring with you...
A little bit about my surgeon, along with links to files and
sites.
My Surgery:
Some of my experiences from my journal.
Here we discuss Sex, Sexuality and Gender, and what you may expect
both for yourself, and from others.
Some of my experiences, advice, and links to other sources of
information on the Internet.
Some of the little bit that I know and have found about "The
Boyz".
My thoughts on this, along with links to others.
Send your questions today!
Enjoy!
- Jenni
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"You Are Unique and Special!"
"There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your
own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own...for
you are unique and more wondrous than you know!"
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Everybody can be great...
"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't
have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your
subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace.
A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Civil Rights Leader
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we
look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which
has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
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Sometimes in life,
you find a special friend…
Someone who changes your life
simply by being a part of it…
Someone who makes you laugh
until you can't stop…
Someone who makes you believe
that there really is good in the world…
Someone who convinces you that there is
an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it…
This is forever friendship
and friendship has no end…
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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest
critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate
beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social
condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you
have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition
of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result
of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all
just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson
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I am only one
We don't need more money, we don't need
greater success or fame, we don't need the perfect body or even
the perfect mate. Right now, at this very moment, we have a mind,
which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,
as in what direction we are
moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with
the wind and sometimes against it, -- but we must sail, and not
drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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