I just wanted to introduce myself

[Jolene4ever]

Hi... Iam Jolene and I live in faar northern wisconsin...I have been on hormones for 8 months and yesterday was a turning point...something just clicked and I now know what it's like to have a woman's senuality, very cool,I also discovered the elbows..if you know what I mean. so hi to all. I know I'll kike it here. Jolene

[katia]

just wanted to say hello, i'm new to the neighborhood too....this is such a wonderful site...where is a good place to start??!!  looking at some of the posts here is really inspiring, alot of great info and helpful people.

[RachelRay]

Hi jolene and katia....  welcome ..I'am new as well...   looks like a great place... 
Jolene i may not be the brightest color in the crayon box...   what do you mean by you discovered the elbows?

[Jolene4ever]

hi Rachel and Katie-.It seems being on hrt for 7 months, I 've reached a point where Iam noticing the sensuality a woman has and different trigger points on the body, for me one of them is the elbows, another is behind the knees. Jolene

[Jillieann Rose]

Hello Jolene,
I'm glad you found the site.
If your look for friends and or information about gender issues this is the place.
Please read the site rules if you haven't at:
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,2.0.html if you haven't already.
Then check out the Wiki, with ton of info on the gender topics. Oh and check out our chat and links section too. Have a great read.
Welcome to Susan's.
Jillieann

[Sophie_F]

Hi everybody.

I'm Sophie, an 62 yrs old HSB woman. I has my affirmation almost 2 yrs ago i Bangkok, Thailand.
(On January 18, 2005, I remember it, as it was yesterday.)

I started my new life on the 10 of December 2001, and got the hormone theraphy the 20 December 2001.
The first day I was out in town as the girl I really am, was 16 January 2002.
From this day my family would not see me anymore, they could'nt come to terms with the fact that I've always been a woman in disguise. I tried to keep that as a secret fo many yrs...... but on this day (December 10) I could'nt bear it anymore.
Today I have no contact at all, with my old family, but thanks to my very good friend and soulsister Susanne, I got a new family. 2½ yrs ago, we both met a young girl with a new born baby. We "adobted" her, and today we have a daughter and the most wonderful little grandson. I'm "Granny" and Susanne is "Auntie"

[Maebh]

Welcome, you are not alone anymore. This board is life changing and life enhancing, so take your time to explore, get the feel of this wonderful community and then when you are ready get involved. I am so glad to be back to the fold. This feels like home. I went through a very hard time, a marriage break-up after 26 years. Like a wounded animal I went into hidding, licking my wounds and wandering where did I go wrong? Luckily I met a beautiful woman who is now my partner, girlfriend, lover, inspiration and treasure. Her name is Eileen, she acceept me as I am as do her children. My own children have come back to me too and together we celebrate and appreciate each other's uniqueness.
LL&R
Maebh

[Kitty LaRue]

Hello everyone, I am Keita (or Kitty as you angel: see). I am in the early stages of transitioning and hope to learn much from you gals. I am in counselling now and hope to start hormones as soon as I can. The  thing I hope to gleen most from you ladies is feminine friendship and in order to draw out more and more of my feminine nature. I am in Minnesota and would welcome correspondence here in Susan's Place or at via e-mail at meowtokitty@yahoo.com 

[Sophie_F]

Welcome, you are not alone anymore. This board is life changing and life enhancing, so take your time to explore, get the feel of this wonderful community and then when you are ready get involved. I am so glad to be back to the fold. This feels like home. I went through a very hard time, a marriage break-up after 26 years. Like a wounded animal I went into hidding, licking my wounds and wandering where did I go wrong? Luckily I met a beautiful woman who is now my partner, girlfriend, lover, inspiration and treasure. Her name is Eileen, she acceept me as I am as do her children. My own children have come back to me too and together we celebrate and appreciate each other's uniqueness.
LL&R
Maebh

Thaks a lot for your welcome. It is very essential for me, to tell everyone about HBS.

HBS is a proven Physiological Condition not Transgender or Trans anything. You'll maybee ask WHY?
I'll tell you and other interrested people:

Here in Denmark we have something like a war on words, because a lot of the transvestites say: "TV and TS are just 2 of a kind." Perhaps they say so, because they want to legalize their own inward urge.

Thats why I'm so glad, to left the "trans" term behind me.

I still believe in: We are NOT Trans anything. 

But first of all, I'm så happy I'm a woman now...... not only one in disguise.

So please help me, with valid arguments against those people.

Am I too hard right now? I really don't hope so, but I had to get i out. Forgive me if I'm annoying anyone, it is not my goal.

[Maebh]

Thaks a lot for your welcome. It is very essential for me, to tell everyone about HBS.

Excuse my ignorance but what does HBS stand for and what does it mean?
Thanks.
LL&R
Maebh

[katia]

Excuse my ignorance but what does HBS stand for and what does it mean?
Thanks.
LL&R
Maebh

hbs stands for harry benjamin's syndrome

http://www.harrybenjaminsyndrome-info.org/pdf/hbs.pdf

as stated in a different post, i don't support any notion that transsexualism is [a form of]/related to/a degree of] intersexuality.

i don't support any opinion that transsexualism is related to/is a form of intersexuality

[transsexualism]

"Transsexualism is a profound form of gender dysphoria where there is a conviction of being "trapped in the wrong body" and the need to express oneself and to be as far as is possible in the gender to which one feels comfortable".
www.northernconcord.org.uk/definiti.htm

[intersexuality]


"There are several entirely separate biological or chromosomal triggers that create an intersex condition. Some are inherited, some are congenital (the result of a biological accident) but the condition or potential for it is inherent at birth. Each condition has a varying degree of incidence through the population and a different set of complications, but all of them have in common the ability to wreck lives if the issues are not dealt with openly and successfully".

http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/0-9/4health/body/gen_intersex.html

there isn't any evidence in the medical literature that [proves] that transsexualism is a [chromosomal, genetic, or biological condition] 

my opinion is that some transsexuals label themselves as [intersexed] to validate their [transsexuality]

[Maebh]

hbs stands for harry benjamin's syndrome

http://www.harrybenjaminsyndrome-info.org/pdf/hbs.pdf

as stated in a different post, i don't support any notion that transsexualism is [a form of]/related to/a degree of] intersexuality.

i don't support any opinion that transsexualism is related to/is a form of intersexuality

[transsexualism]

"Transsexualism is a profound form of gender dysphoria where there is a conviction of being "trapped in the wrong body" and the need to express oneself and to be as far as is possible in the gender to which one feels comfortable".
www.northernconcord.org.uk/definiti.htm

[intersexuality]


"There are several entirely separate biological or chromosomal triggers that create an intersex condition. Some are inherited, some are congenital (the result of a biological accident) but the condition or potential for it is inherent at birth. Each condition has a varying degree of incidence through the population and a different set of complications, but all of them have in common the ability to wreck lives if the issues are not dealt with openly and successfully".

http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/0-9/4health/body/gen_intersex.html

there isn't any evidence in the medical literature that [proves] that transsexualism is a [chromosomal, genetic, or biological condition] 

my opinion is that some transsexuals label themselves as [intersexed] to validate their [transsexuality]

Thanks it does make a lot of sense. I feel a bit wiser now
LL&R
Maebh