Before I came out of the closet I would use them to buy female clothing but since I came out I no longer use them. I don't like supporting companies cutting jobs.

Hunters chicken with  potato  wedges 

Not really dinner seeing it was 10pm before I ate it but my nephew made pepper steak with lumpias and fried rice. His mom's birthday is today. She had some before her trip to see her daughter.

Quote from: TanyaG on June 09, 2025, 04:10:25 AMcan't bring myself to believe it is anything to do with cross-dressing, or being trans, instead it's more likely the explanation is that people with looser boundaries for gender expression are potentially more likely to question other aspects of their character. People who are assigned male at birth and brought up gendered masculine are heavily 'gender policed' (as in made to conform to masculinity) and when that policing is disrupted, it no surprise it can unearth some things people had previously never considered about themselves.

I think this is very true. Since becoming accepting of my gender identity in recent years - that my hetero-normative conditioning had always blocked off - same-sex attraction also started to flow; and as I became accepting of this it kind of became stronger and more natural. So having told myself for years that I was a straight male with some side interests - the authentic description is probably more like 'Bisexual Transgender woman.'

Being about a week from the bladder stone surgery, I have some anxiety. I had a whole list of medications that I had to stop taking a week before the operation. Mostly blood thinners, All aspirin including the baby aspirin. What surprised me was the fish oil on the list. My understanding is that nicotine is also a blood thinner and the reason to stop smoking at least a week before surgery.

Nicotine being also a stimulant is used to control autism/adhd. Not desirable, but it seems the desired drug is in short supply and difficult to find. The law of supply and demand means the desired drug is overpriced.
Getting an autism/adhd diagnosis will not help much if no place can fill the prescription.

It appears estrogen has the same problem. Overpriced if you can find it.
I go to Good-Rx, search for estradiol Valerate and see the prices at the local pharmacies. Shocking to see Walgreens 50 dollars less than Walmart. Of course it is a generic, the brand name way too expensive.

My body is already feminized, I don't need estrogen for that. If I understood properly, I need estrogen to control body functions that the testosterone is supposed to control. My testosterone has been too low and not doing it's job properly. Testosterone is way more hazardous and result in changes I do not want. I have chosen estrogen to replace the missing testosterone, and keep my feminized body.

I could go on and on, but I think I better stop
Michelle

Road running, mountain biking.

Tour de France (started today).

Welcome Sandra! Your name selection sounds familiar - I went to school with a very cute Mandy and the idea of sharing that resonated.

I don't like them, because they mean fewer jobs for people who need them.  The stores save money, but much of the money they might save is eaten up by theft.  What savings they do realize, they don't pass on to the consumers.  Given the choice, I prefer to use a human cashier. 

Hi everyone. Some of you might be considering transition or maybe you already started out. This is sort of an unfortunate thing that happened to me. I'm not saying it's going to happen to you but it's better to go into this with realistic expectations.

There was a guy I met about 13 years ago. I met him in person. He initially looked at me like I was the most beautiful girl he ever saw. I took my time and showed an interest back in him. I really feel like we had feelings for each other that were more than "just friends." I even told him straight up that I was transgender before things moved any further. He said he could understand that.

I've told him about desires I had before like bottom surgery. I really thought we had the potential to be more than just friends.

We stayed in touch on Facebook, and everything seemed to be going well. Fast forward to earlier this year; he posts a meme that says "Trans sheep are sheep." I assumed this was just to be funny as he was the most accepting person I knew.

He took my comment on it completely the wrong way and inadvertently outed me publicly. I confronted him about this privately yet he still maintained the meme was "more political rather anything against transgender people." I was still confused so I asked him what changed about him. Now he tells me he doesn't care if I do something to my body he just doesn't want this "shoved down kids throats" or "women with male appendage in women's restrooms." At this point I just blocked him. It was very clear to me he was just trying to get a response out of me and make me look bad in doing so.

I guess my moral of the story is be careful who you trust. There are alot of people out there that may seem like good people that will love and accept you for being transgender but they could be a fake. This guy basically strung me along for about 13 years and I thought he was love at first sight.