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25/11/2014

Is this the trans equivalent of 'pray away the gay' ?

I told my mom that I don't feel like a girl, that I feel like a boy and explained to her about transgender stuff
She still refers me as her girl and she says that I need to meditate
It hurts

Everything is so wrong now

Everthing is so wrong now
My parents are divorced
I turn out to be a transgender
And I have a crush on a female uni teacher who always smiles at me
I don't know how to deal with these feelings

I secretly laugh

Just wanna add sumting on to the Lgbt know ur T event just now [18 Nov 2014]. I identify as a transman but I like it n secretly laugh when ppl tell me ''you look like a guy/man'', contrary to what June had said about transgendered ppl not liking it when ppl say he/she look LIKE a man/woman.

[Singapore]

Butch -vs- Trans?

How do you identify butch from ladies and transman from butch? as a waiteress, myself being transgender too, i seen alot of customer, some of them looked somewhat like butch and some come with another girl and they seem too close to be just friends. If only i could identify them on sight, maybe i would earn some extra tips by being able to call them by the right pronoun they prfer without asking ><

[Singapore]

The Swan Project

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///// Abuse (physical, mental, emotional, verbal, sexual) ///////

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Kindly post this article on your wall. This is my story and it'll make alot of changes in ppls' lives.

http://swanprojectsg.wordpress.com/category/voices/

[Sham, Singapore]

06/11/2014

Being a gay transman

Being gay in trans is so difficult. Want to top someone nobody want to be bottom. U tell them 'Female to male?!' They block you    

So far away

Transition is so so far away
I feel like I cannot enjoy anything in life anymore
I just try to lose myself in work
   

02/11/2014

Lou Sullivan (June 16, 1951 – March 2, 1991)

   
Louis Graydon Sullivan was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was a pioneering activist who, because he was also gay, played a pivotal role in changing the medical diagnosis and treatment of transsexualism. He was also a major force in creating community for trans masculine people.
When Sullivan was 17, he began a long term relationship with a feminine male lover. By 1973, Sullivan was identifying as a “female transvestite,” and launched a career of transgender community activism with the publication of the article “A Transvestite Answers a Feminist,” which appeared in the Gay People’s Union News. A second article published the following year, “Looking Towards Transvestite Liberation,” remains a landmark for its early investigation of gender identity in homosexual culture.
By 1975, Sullivan was identifying as a female-to-male transsexual, and he moved to San Francisco. He was employed as a woman, but spent most of his time living as a gay man. He sought out surgery but was consistently denied because he was gay. As a result, Sullivan became involved in a campaign to remove homosexual orientation from the list of contraindications for SRS.
He published a booklet called Information for the Female to Male Cross-Dresser and Transsexualwhich disseminated information about finding support groups, counseling, endocrinological and surgical services.
In 1979, Sullivan started taking testosterone and also became a volunteer at the Janus Information Facility (now J2CP), a referral service in San Francisco. He had top surgery in 1980 and started living full time as a gay man. Throughout the 80s, Sullivan continued to wrote about FTM issues in the gay and transgender press, started work on his biography of Jack Garland, and became a popular public speaker.
In 1986, Sullivan had genital reconstruction surgery, and organized what would become FTM International, the first known peer-support group in the U.S. devoted entirely to FTM individuals. Later that year Sullivan was diagnosed with AIDS. He died of an AIDS-related illness on March 2, 1991, at the age of 39.
For more information about Lou Sullivan, explore the Lou Sullivan Society (LSS) website. The LSS has displayed selected materials from Sullivan’s papers in a number of exhibitions, notably “Man-i-fest: FTM Mentoring in San Francisco from 1976 to 2009,”  which was open through much of 2010 in the second gallery at the society’s headquarters at 657 Mission St. in San Francisco, and “Our Vast Queer Past: Celebrating San Francsico’s GLBT History,” the debut exhibition in the main gallery at the society’s GLBT History Museum that opened in January 2011 in San Francisco’s Castro District.

October is LGBT History Month. This post on Lou Sullivan is taken from Transguys.com by Joshua Riverdale. Read all the stories on A Brief History of FTM Trans Civilisation.

20th Century Transgender Men

These historical profiles of some of the key trans men of the past century highlight their remarkable achievements. Their perseverance in the face of prejudice has earned them a place in the FTM trans history time line.

01/11/2014

Back acne and voice change

I have lots of back acne since T. Does anyone get that too? And my voice has not changed much for 4 months after it first dropped tremendously.

[Singapore]

Serious back acne

I have very serious back acne after I started T. Do u guys experience this too? And how do u cope with it? Thanks

[Singapore]


Definition of good

[Previous post]
I hear the bangkok surgeons ain't as great after all? Is this true?

[Submitted response]
What is your definition of "good"? Can stand and pee? have sensation? adult size penis? can have penetrative sex? surgeons have experience? have ftm clients almost daily? Price is lower than the west?

If the above is what you define as good, then Bangkok is good. Only 1 surgeon is good and world reknown.

If you just want top surgery, there are many good ones all over the world. Plenty of photos on the internet for ftm surgeries. Don't bother asking here as the majority in this page did not go under the knife.

Tiny

I'm a really tiny dude and it makes me feel like I can't fit in with the guys at my school, especially because I haven't been transitioning for long.


I f*cked up

I fucked up really badly, this time. I've managed to get the surgeon to hate me. I don't know how I did it - I swear, all I was trying to do was make surgery happen. I don't know how it got this bad, or this far. All I know is that it doesn't look like it's going to happen, and I feel like a waste of space.

I should not cross roads or drive cars for a couple of days, I guess.