Hiyas! - Back After A Long Delay

[mystics_rain]

(Just bringing this back up because I am back after a long delay)


I'm Mystic!

I was looking online for resources for our forum, my life partner and I, and I found this forum.

We have our GLBT forum and we want to welcome everyone to it, and we are afraid we do not know much about the Trans Community, yet want to learn, we have a few members that are trans, we have only been up and going strong for a little over a month now, but hope to grow. I saw this forum and it looked informative so wanted to join to learn more and hopefully be able to reach out to our trans community.

We created our forum in hopes to reach out to the GLBT community, we often felt lonely at times, and my g/f wanted to start a forum so I followed suit with her. We have worked really hard and have amazing members so far. We have many couples there and just want to be there with open arms for everyone and support! We also have a survivors spot, and I am not sure that there are many forums out there for survivors that are gay. I know being a gay person myself it was often hard being on a forum with many straight people and talk about a survivor and being gay, I didn't get much support in that, so I think it's good we have a place for that now, it just kinda developed into what it has now.

Anways, that's enough ramble about our forum. I am not a trans, if you hadn't noticed. I am in my late twenties, and recent divorcee, late in finding out I'm gay. I'm loving it though. I live with my life partner and 3 kiddos.


Thanks for letting me join!

Again Hiya,


mystic

[tinkerbell]

Hello Mystic and welcome to Susan's!

Thank you so much for your introduction.  Please take a few moments to get familiar with all the boards of the site, review the site rules before posting, and take advantage of our many resources such as the wiki, chat, and the links listed at the main page.  We look forward to your future posts and participation.  Enjoy your stay

tink

[mystics_rain]

Thank you sweetie, I have read them.

Nice to meet ya Tink.

[Robyn]

Welcome, mystic.  Another viewpoint to add to the mix here at Susan's.  I look forward to reading more about you and your cis-gendered journey. 

Robyn

[RebeccaFog]

Hi Mystic,

   Nice to have you here.   In real life, there's no place for me in my town (I'm a male bodied gender variant), but the local LBT Women's group took me in.

   I'm going to send you a PM asking where your forum is.  I'm just curious and it could make a good resource for the women in my support group.


Rebis

[mystics_rain]

Hey Robyn, It looks like I have a few words to look up, in the Wiki?
Thank you for the welcome!

I appreciate it.

Rebis, yes, I got it. I was worried for a moment lol, I was hoping I hadn't did anything wrong!
I did get your pm, I will pm you when I can, ok?
Thanks for inquiring!


take care,

mystic

Posted on: March 23, 2008, 05:58:02 PMSorry, can't find them..what is CIS-gendered? And male bodied gender variant?
I'm sorry to ask! And be a pain.

[RebeccaFog]

Posted on: March 23, 2008, 05:58:02 PMSorry, can't find them..what is CIS-gendered? And male bodied gender variant?
I'm sorry to ask! And be a pain.

CIS-gendered means a person whose gender matches their body sex.  I call them normals, but some people call them straights.  I don't know if you count as cisgendered because of your sexual preference or not.  I get confused.

     male bodied gender variant is someone born with a male body who does not identify as entirely male and who does not identify as entirely female.  I guess genderqueer would work as a label too.  I like 'gender variant' or 'pregendered'.
      In my case, I feel I am female, but I don't feel like a woman, at least to the extent where I'm in need of transitioning or living as one.
      We have female bodied gender variants too.

     Pregendered is not an official word, but some of us use it to describe ourselves because we feel as though the gender part of our personality may have stopped developing at some point before we reached puberty.  We feel our point of view is similar to a child's in that we are confused by both male and female gender traits.

I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong. 


Rebis

[mystics_rain]

There is a lot to learn, thank you Rebis!

[RebeccaFog]

Please don't be scared away.   

[mystics_rain]

I am not at all.

[debbie j]

hiyea mystics_rain nice name btw  :)i hope yo ulike it here at susans there is a lot of great people here .

and a lot of great information too hello

[mystics_rain]

thank you sweetie

[Lucy]

Hi ya Mystic wow you are a popular person, lots of welcomes here. Im glad you found us and hope that you have a pleasent stay. I hope that you find the awnsers that you are looking for and dont find the jargon to confusing.

Its really nice to meet you.

LUV LUCY

[mystics_rain]

Hey Lucy, I love your doll btw Too cute and pink! Sparkly as well!

Thank you for the welcome! Yeah the jargon is something to get used to, but am trying. I do enjoy it here.

Everyone seems to be a sweetie.


~ mystic

[therise]

Hi mystic 

[mystics_rain]

Hey sweetie! Big tackle hugs!

[Myanne]

Hello Mystic and welcome! As you can see , you don't need to be a trans to meet friends! Hehehe
Hugs from Sweden 

[mystics_rain]

Hey sweetie! Thanks. ^^^

[gennee]

Welcome to Susan's, Mystic. Thank you for sharing your story.

Gennee

[mystics_rain]

Thank you

Posted on: 26 April 2008, 05:48:05Hi, just wanted to bring this back up so that those who didn't meet me before, will see me again now. I haven't been around in awhile so wanted to bring my intro back up. ^^

Posted on: 02 July 2008, 05:11:29Also, update on our forum, we seem to be attracting more womyn and the trans community. And we are going pretty strong and have a heavy flow of traffic. Going on 6 months here soon. Our baby is growing!