Looking for other transgenders in bible belt !!

[fusstangtroy]

St. Louis here!  If you are looking for events, look at or contact www.stlmetrotrans.com. I am trying to get up the courage to go to a meeting or event, but they seem to sponser them pretty regularly

I will take a look and would be very interested going to something in june or july .. I to got grow some brave and check trans stuff .Thanks and have great day .AKA Sara

[Allyda]

St. Louis here!  If you are looking for events, look at or contact www.stlmetrotrans.com. I am trying to get up the courage to go to a meeting or event, but they seem to sponser them pretty regularly

Even though I don't live in your area I took a look at your link. It looks like you girls in St. Louis have a great resource there. I wish we had an organization like that here where I live.

[JaneNicole2013]

St. Louis here!  If you are looking for events, look at or contact www.stlmetrotrans.com. I am trying to get up the courage to go to a meeting or event, but they seem to sponser them pretty regularly

Wow. Never knew that group existed. Good to know!

Jane

[Kylie]

I was in a hurry when i posted and couldnt think of the web address but........There is also the St. Louis Gender Foundation www.stlouisgenderfoundation.org , they meet once a month for dinner and have guest speakers come in.  Have never been to this either, but Debbie, who runs it is super nice on the phone and through emails.  If I get up the vag to check it out, I will let you know how it is.

[JaneNicole2013]

I was in a hurry when i posted and couldnt think of the web address but........There is also the St. Louis Gender Foundation www.stlouisgenderfoundation.org , they meet once a month for dinner and have guest speakers come in.  Have never been to this either, but Debbie, who runs it is super nice on the phone and through emails.  If I get up the vag to check it out, I will let you know how it is.

Thanks!

[dkl]

Wouldn't say stealth, everyone at my job knows, and everyone that knew me a few years ago knows. They have for the most part been supportive, and they have expressed their support  for the upcoming surgery. I just don't share my past with people I meet, or have met in the past 2 to 3 years.

Wichita doesn't really have a lot of resources either, when I first began my transition they had a support group, but I was the only one that identified as transsexual that regularly attended, so I wasn't able to discuss a lot of my concerns. It was helpful though as I was able to start building confidence in going out dressed as a woman. It takes a while. True-fully, I think confidence is a key element in going out and not being read, or at least not being questioned. I sometimes wonder if people I've met in the last couple years know or suspect, but like I said, I don't discuss it unless I need to. If someone came straight out and asked, I'm not sure how I would respond.

Kristin

[Alyssa Rae]

St. Louis!!! 

[Kylie18]

hello from Rural South-Eastern Mississippi.

[naomi599]

Northwest Georgia gal here.

[fusstangtroy]

St. Louis!!! 

Thanks alot ..avatar is one the best i have ever seen  AKA Sara

[fusstangtroy]

hello from Rural South-Eastern Mississippi.

All you gals are making me feel great .. Thanks AKA Sara

[fusstangtroy]

Northwest Georgia gel here.
[/quotts ]Never been in Georgia but what ive seen in pictures its pretty .Have wonderful weekend!! AKA Sara ,

[Kylie]

Wow! So many girls reppin the Lou!  3 short weeks ago I felt so alone, and then I began to search and found out that I wasn't at all.  I know I don't know y'all, but just knowing you are out there is a great feeling.  *Hugs*

I wish this site was around when I tried to come out when I was younger, I know I would be fully transitioned and living so happily by now    I wasn't sure that I would ever have the courage to transition, but this site has really made me see the possibilities.    My courage has grown leaps and bounds in just the last few days here.  Thank you all for sharing so much of yourselves to help others.

[fusstangtroy]

Wow! So many girls reppin the Lou!  3 short weeks ago I felt so alone, and then I began to search and found out that I wasn't at all.  I know I don't know y'all, but just knowing you are out there is a great feeling.  *Hugs*

I wish this site was around when I tried to come out when I was younger, I know I would be fully transitioned and living so happily by now    I wasn't sure that I would ever have the courage to transition, but this site has really made me see the possibilities.    My courage has grown leaps and bounds in just the last few days here.  Thank you all for sharing so much of yourselves to help others.

Hey thanks for joining in on my topic ..If only girls right in my own town (sprinfield mo ) would  chime in lgbt center life would be really cool. Theres girls here i have chat with and doing something that simple has only give me more to smile about ...AKA Sara

[Jess42]

I do think you messed up quoting me fusstangtroy, but yeah AC/DC rocks. But try the song "Faries Wear Boots" by Black Sabbath in a convertable with Stilletto thigh high boots with fishnet stockings and a black miniskirt with a black tank top in full make up and long flowing curly hair, with or without big boobs, in a red neck town and see how many people look and how they look at you. Funny how the way you dress and wear your makeup and hair will fool most people, especially rednecks.   Especially when the song should have given it away.

[fusstangtroy]

Wouldn't say stealth, everyone at my job knows, and everyone that knew me a few years ago knows. They have for the most part been supportive, and they have expressed their support  for the upcoming surgery. I just don't share my past with people I meet, or have met in the past 2 to 3 years.

Wichita doesn't really have a lot of resources either, when I first began my transition they had a support group, but I was the only one that identified as transsexual that regularly attended, so I wasn't able to discuss a lot of my concerns. It was helpful though as I was able to start building confidence in going out dressed as a woman. It takes a while. True-fully, I think confidence is a key element in going out and not being read, or at least not being questioned. I sometimes wonder if people I've met in the last couple years know or suspect, but like I said, I don't discuss it unless I need to. If someone came straight out and asked, I'm not sure how I would respond.

Kristin

A big thanks for telling us how you feel and deal with being out in world .My future will be trying to make the leap to some full time .I hope i can be as pretty as yourself. It helps for gals just starting out( like me) to hear how others get to future phases of life. AKA Sara

[fusstangtroy]

I do think you messed up quoting me fusstangtroy, but yeah AC/DC rocks. But try the song "Faries Wear Boots" by Black Sabbath in a convertable with Stilletto thigh high boots with fishnet stockings and a black miniskirt with a black tank top in full make up and long flowing curly hair, with or without big boobs, in a red neck town and see how many people look and how they look at you. Funny how the way you dress and wear your makeup and hair will fool most people, especially rednecks.   Especially when the song should have given it away.

Me and my wife just read you last post .Me and you could be trouble in skirt ( some day for me .just thinking about wearing skirt makes me smile)Rock on . Redneck vs gals in skirts !!! AKA Sara

[Allyda]

Interesting how you mentioned the Sabbath song "Faries Wear Boots" and passing around rednecks. I have a friend who is scared if I go with him up to a little Fl. town called Fort White just outside of Gainsville I'd be putting my life in mortal danger (or so he says), so at the last minute plans of me going to drive him back from the University Hospital in Gainesville (he has bad skin cancer, and is going up Wednesday for Radiation injectments in his arms). On the way back we'd have to stop off in Fort White (a 40 minute detour) to pick up his wife who's staying with friends up there. Well, here's the facts he's forgetting: Where we live in the very small 1 stoplight town of Floral City, is redneck country and I'm always gendered correctly, I just got back from a drive I took myself down to Okeechobee via Fl Route 27 through the heart of Florida Cracker/redneck country where I was always gendered correctly everywhere, and, just the general fact I'm always gendered correctly no matter where I go, and the only way anyone would know I was trans is if he said something. Now, this "friend" who says he has no problem with trans people is beginning to sound to me like a hippocrite, who's afraid to be seen with me in public despite the fact I've not been clocked in well over 5 years. His family/friends don't know me, and have never seen me before. And we'd only be there for 5 minutes or so picking up his wife.

I was a little hurt over this last minute plans change made by my so called "friend" who supposidly has no problem with trans people, and Jess42's post sort of reminded me of the situation. Sorry everyone if I went off topic a bit. But this has been bothering me for a few days now and I needed to get it out.

Ally

[Jess42]

Allyda. I really can't say for sure 'cause your friend may very well be concerned about your safety but on the other hand you may be right. Face him eye to eye and ask him, or that's what I would do.

But I notice times are changing and there is a more live and let live attitude in these redneck areas. Hell I'm a redneck myself, or maybe a pinkneck. Yeah, I think I prefer pinkneck. But when I was younger gaybashing was pretty much the norm and now, the last time I went home, people in my family have gay  extended family members and it's pretty much no big deal. Hell, someone was telling me about going to another city which I won't name and seeng a transgendered woman and he was telling me that was the first time he had seen a transwoman, not "->-bleeped-<-", not "->-bleeped-<-", not "heshe" or any of the other derogatory names we get called. I was floored, especially coming from him with no malice or disgusted look or nothing other than if we were talking about him seeing a minor celebrity in that he has never seen one of those either. I am stealth and no one knows about me being trans so I know it wasn't to spare my feelings. Just a little observation.

Me and my wife just read you last post .Me and you could be trouble in skirt ( some day for me .just thinking about wearing skirt makes me smile)Rock on . Redneck vs gals in skirts !!! AKA Sara

Fusstangtroy, I am definately trouble in anything that I wear.

[Allyda]

Allyda. I really can't say for sure 'cause your friend may very well be concerned about your safety but on the other hand you may be right. Face him eye to eye and ask him, or that's what I would do.

Thanks Jess42, but I've no problem passing and this person knows this. I'll look him in the eye and ask him as you suggest and gauge his reply, however his son backs up my reasoning because he overheard a few things. My so called friend doesn't know it, but his son is a transgender man (FTM). He's in stealth mode because he see's how his father's acting around me. I'll keep y'all posted.

Ally