Why do we let them do it to us?

[Janet_Girl]

Count me in.  And as an American, I do know a thing or two about defeating the British. 

[rejennyrated]

Count me in.  And as an American, I do know a thing or two about defeating the British. 

Well as you know we cornish regard oursleves as a separate country - and we aren't too pleased that since the time of Henry Tudor we seem to have suffered a silent take over. Heck we were on of the few parts of these islands that was never conquered by the Romans... we even had our own parliament and language until the english took over...

[Kay]

*shrug* I don't know....with a flag like this?  Meh...
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How about someplace more tropical and exciting? 

[Rock_chick]

There's always the Scilly Isle...they're pretty much sub tropical.

Love the flag as well Kay

[Al James]

I'll vote for the Isle of Wight. But seriously there is something very wrong in a country where at the age of 38 i'm waiting to see if i have given my psychiatrist the right answers for him to refer me on to the GIC. I've had two meetings with him , my third is in three weeks when he'll tell me whether they are referring me on. I know i'm male, have more or less always known it, but because i may not be very good at explaining things to strangers my whole life could stop here

[Janet_Girl]

And if we take over a country we could call it "Transatlantic", if Cornwall or Isle of Wright.  "Transpacific", if somewhere in the pacific region, like Hawaii.

[rejennyrated]

Love it! Scilly isles here we come - I'll get my distant cousin Fraser Hicks out with his boat to welcome us!

My mum is burried on the scilly isles as that is where part of our rather strange family comes from

As my mum was a proto-Androgyne I vote my late mum as honarary president of Transcillonia

[Al James]

In the galaxy of Transylvania?? Prepare the transit beam

[Rock_chick]

Transcillonia...I like it.


Jenny for president!

[Luna!]

Androgynes are welcome too, I assume? ^_^

I do hope that no one takes what I'm about to say the wrong way... but I do think that there is some good in the idea of having a decent period of time to make sure this is what one wants. I don't think that suitability for irreversible things like surgeries and long-term HRT can really be decided in a couple of visits.

I'll use myself as an example. I was born a boy. When acting naturally, I have a very feminine mindset and mannerisms. Even now I consider myself something of a girl (just a rather unorthodox and obscure type). Tack on the dysphoria I had about being a boy, and I'd naturally thought about switching sides, so to speak. Not all that long ago, I had been through the first set of hurdles and cleared for hormone blockers; everything seemed ok. I had even taken them for a few months.

Then, a few things occurred in such a way as to make me question (again) the path I was on. "Is this really necessary? Would I be ok if this didn't happen? Is there any way of being myself with the body I have now?" I had asked all these questions before, of course, but the answers had changed. It took a few months to get to this point. I eventually stopped taking the blockers (I still have what's left of them).

I wouldn't mind if I woke up tomorrow as a girl, but it no longer disappoints me when I wake up and that hasn't happened. Though my case obviously does not apply to many here, surely there are others in the same vein, some of whom do not know it yet. It would be silly to go through all the hoops that the world (not just the medical community) demands of a transwoman/man if I/they can be equally happy without doing so.

There are definite risks involved in transitioning, both medical and social. Given that one can be mistaken about the suitability of that path (and one can, regardless of how strongly they believe otherwise at the start), a great deal of caution is required so as not to mess things up unnecessarily. The RLEs are the simple mandating of this caution.

Anyways, back to discussing this (currently) fictional nation of ours! ^_^