Well, today is my 1 year mark on hormones (woo) and I have actually been looking forward to it (kind of like a birthday?). I went down and got cupcakes and just generally think it will be a nice day to celebrate things.
Does anyone else celebrate their ->-bleeped-<-versary? If you do, what things do you do?
Quote from: Jaime Renee on March 22, 2012, 01:51:17 PM
Must you use that term in the subject line though?
Agreed.
O.o tis a joke....! I'm jewish, i do that....
I'll explain it :D
You see, "->-bleeped-<-versary" rhymes with "anniversary" ... You just remove the "Tr" at the start and they are really similar! Which makes it funny....
~sigh~ when you get upset about something like that, you might need to start asking yourself if you take life a little too seriously :P
i am thinking they were just trying to make a joke of something we all mostly have had or been and is maybe best to leave at that
i dislike the term but i do understand you osmetimes have to beable to laugh at you self first
oh :( Sorry to hear that :(
I use the term a lot around people :) That way it disarms the term and how i think about it. I know people will think I am a "->-bleeped-<-" (in a less than nice way), but if i use the term first and am completely ok / comfortable with it... it robs them of their ability to use it in an offensive way.
My joking way of handling things makes others become a lot more comfortable around me. When I make jokes about transyness (case in point, making up terms is a good way of showing others you are comfortable with it and approach it with humor) they realize it is safe to talk to me as a normal person. They aren't afraid of accidentally using the wrong term or asking a question that might send me for their throats.
I see being super senstive about being trans as only making things worse for ourselves. If I bit peoples heads off of using the wrong term or phrase or all the other VERY VERY common mistakes people outside of the community do... it would just make me seem hostile and alienate myself. Most the time people call at MTF as "he" or use "->-bleeped-<-" instead of "transgendered" .. they aren't doing it as an attempt to insult anyone ... they are simply not educated to the prefered way to refer to transgendered people (because they probably have never run into it before). I'm pretty understanding of that, it is all about the intent behind the words.
So, basically, lighten up :P If you learn to laugh about it and make jokes about it and are just comfortable with it... you will have a MUCH easier time around people. People will be drawn to you (instead of pushed away) and will be more able to accept and understand our transitis. Humor is an extremely powerful tool when dealing with difficult subjects :P
I think your humor is more than acceptable :)
and i plan to celebrate mine :D
just a couple more months x3
Come on folks, I'm sure nothing was meant by it. Accept it as a play on words, an attempt at humor.
Quote from: Sarah Louise on March 22, 2012, 03:11:34 PM
Come on folks, I'm sure nothing was meant by it. Accept it as a play on words, an attempt at humor.
NO !! LETS ALL GET RABBIT AND BEAT HER UP >:-)
kidding ;D
My tranniversary was dec 8th and i am in my 14th yr post op and well i started in feb 98 so i am in my 15th yr from starting and well next yr will be my sweet 16 rebirthday and i am still a virgin waiting for well waiting for nothing lol i am a celibate / asexual / wet dreamer ;) so no there is no party or gifts except the gift of freedom from having that thang weigh me down in life.. plus i do so many more things since sex isn't a part of my life.. well except for when i am asleep ::)
No!
I give it more than just an attempt at humour, that's good stuff! Besides, there are more important things, the woman says she has cupcakes! Hugs, Devlyn
Last year I think I was mostly like "Oh look, it's the day I started hormones! Neat!" and thought nothing more of it
I don't really think of it as a day that defines me all that much, it just happened to be the day that I went on hormones... I'm more interested in potentially celebrate the day that I went full-time, as that was infinitely more monumental to me in terms of things actually happening.
In November. I'll eat Chinese food, or go to a Bar and Grill. :D
Dear Rabbit,
Congratulations on your one year anniversary! :) I am excited to hear about your success and could care less about your choice of words to describe your happiness. Good for you and maybe some day I will get to celebrate with you! :icon_drunk:
Jennifer
No, I celebrate my birthday for which getting on HRT was a birthday present to myself. So far, so good!
Joelene
I dunno. There are so many things worthy of celebrating.
Like for me, the most important day to me is The Day The World Made Sense. The day I understood and accepted that I needed to transition to be happy. The day I stopped trying to convince myself I was really male. I always thought of that day as the start of my transition.
Of course, that day was four days before my birthday. I can't get two parties out of that! So maybe your idea is better. :P
Quote from: Tazia of the Omineca on March 22, 2012, 06:25:57 PM
In November. I'll eat Chinese food, or go to a Bar and Grill. :D
So's mine. I plan on eating my Chinese food with my yearly viewing of Berry Gordy's
The Last Dragon.
My ->-bleeped-<-versary is september 27th, 2011.
I'm going to have to buy myself something nice or something. :D
I start with low dose E about my birthday (25th :'()
So I have it simple :D
Duh, my ->-bleeped-<-versary is going to include lots of food stuffing and just being very lazy the whole day. If it happens to be a work day, I'll take the day off and just enjoy it. It's like my second birthday, just that it feels somehow more important.
6 more months!
// edit
Zomg, alyx, we have it on the same day! I started hormones on September 27th, too!
Took me about an hour to find a thread like this, doubt its the most recent but w/e it is still relevant.
I celebrated by first year on hormones by buying bras for the first time and getting my ears pierced( I chose the July Stud, it was affordable and I liked how it looked only<3 Ruby color). 38B by the way fit me the best~ It was a great experience.
I was with a friend(co worker) and we went to have dinner. I was properly greeted (she is cis), and I decided to buy a beer. The look on the guys face when he saw my ID was PRICELESS. he spent like two minutes staring down at it and then back at me in utter confusion and disbelief. It felt good.
The guy who bought out the food called us both ladies, and well it was just a good peaceful night. For the first time I was actually completely confident, didn't think about my birth gender at all, it all just faded into Rita.
At claires a few female customers were like, oh look that girl is getting her ears pierced (and omg they have this bear for little kids that get their ears pierced that is SO CUTE, Yes I played with it while my ears were being pierced >////<.
I've had a couple of tranniversaries. There was 5 June 2012 which was my 1-year HRT anniversary, and I "celebrated" it by going out without any makeup one.
16 September 2012 was the one-year tranniversary of me going full time. I took myself out for a nice lunch that day.
nope
I can't say I really 'celebrate' mine. I observe them, but they tend to just bring sadness.
I'm aware of it... but I skip the cake and balloons.
I actually quietly celebrate each month, but bought a new dress and shoes on my first anniversary of living full time, September 7th, 2012. So I passed my sixteenth month a few weeks ago.
yea every 5 yrs
3 times so far
My wife took me out to dinner to celebrate --- so yea I celebrated it --- my one year was Jan 1st
Absolutely not!
I will start celebrating after SRS! :)
These zombie threads are always an interesting glimpse into the many people who have been on this site, some who are still here and others who haven't posted in ages.
Anyway, haven't reached mine for HRT but when I do I'll probably celebrate by going full time.
Mine is Wednesday. It has been one year since I cut through the BS and began calling myself Jill.
My wife will be out of town that day unfortunately, so I'm going out for tacos with one of my friends who also happens to be a contributor here.
I will in 6 months 3 weeks from now. I started HRT 3 days before the day I was born. I did not want to be 51 and starting HRT, vanity I guess.
I want to get my ears pierced on my HRT birthday. I suspect I will be alone on that day.
I'll send you hologram of me so you don't have to celebrate alone.
Quote from: Cynthia Michelle on November 08, 2013, 07:41:45 PM
I will in 6 months 3 weeks from now. I started HRT 3 days before the day I was born. I did not want to be 51 and starting HRT, vanity I guess.
I want to get my ears pierced on my HRT birthday. I suspect I will be alone on that day.
There are (or will be) three days that I will observe:
My "Estraversary" or first dose of HRT - April 5. I saw the term elsewhere on this site and I love it.
My "Restiversary" or beginning of going full time - Sept 11. I actually just coined the term as in the anniversary old putting "him" to rest.
My Rebirthday will be when I have my SRS.
Nah. My hormone start date is sometime in January I think? I guess I'll be coming up to my third year. Weird. Feels like so much longer.
I have a transmutation symbol tattooed on the inside of my wrist. That's how I commemorate it.
Never really liked being celebrated like that. Hate my birthday too.
I don't really "celebrate" anything, but I acknowledge the occasion of the anniversary of my "rebirth." That's the day that I began to assert my true identity. I left home early that day to buy new clothes and makeup, change, and do my hair. When I arrived at school that night, I informed my teachers of my new name. It's an important date, and a solemn occasion because I overcame an internal struggle only to be met with an external conflict.
I don't really know exactly when I took my first dose of estrogen. It was a very low dose and it was several years ago. It was an experiment to see if it eased my GD any and I didn't really think that the date was important back then. Oh, the experiment was a success BTW :)
When I decided to go the full distance I got prescribed a higher dose and I took the first of that dose on October 8th of this year, so I guess I'll observe that date as my ->-bleeped-<-versary.
Like someone else said earlier that date is going to be tinged with sadness for me since my wife and I are separating after 26 years together; she'll drive away tomorrow morning with her stuff loaded in the back of the car.
Quote from: Ms Grace on November 08, 2013, 02:58:23 PM
These zombie threads are always an interesting glimpse into the many people who have been on this site, some who are still here and others who haven't posted in ages.
zombie threads, lol!
My first year will be Nov 17th, in 1 week! :D I've thought about celebrating, but life is one big celebration so what's the diff! I'm sure I'll brag about it to some of the people I'm close with, at the least it will score me some hugs, maybe a drink. :laugh:
But also:
I've been keeping it boy mode for the most part~work, and around people I haven't told. I've been thinking about using my 1 year as an opportunity to come out to the last few people I'd care to tell.
As far as full-time... well, I'm very close to it, we'll see how the house votes on ENDA. Once that gets passed, all I need to do is get some more clothes! ;D
Not planning on celebrating anything until i have and recover from SRS. Then i plan on having some of my close friends and family who have been here for the wild ride its been so far, and having a vajay jay.shaped cake to celebrate.
I can image the look on the baker who gets the order for that cake!! :D
Quote from: kariann330 on November 09, 2013, 09:01:00 AM
Not planning on celebrating anything until i have and recover from SRS. Then i plan on having some of my close friends and family who have been here for the wild ride its been so far, and having a vajay jay.shaped cake to celebrate.
aug 20th 2012 is the date I will always remember, but don't celebrate
I started hormones on my daughter's birthday. I didn't plan it that way - that's just when I finally got the prescription. I remember it on the day, but I don't celebrate it. (I do celebrate my daughter's birth, though.)
The date I started RLE is another that I remember but don't celebrate.
But it turns out that the day I was getting reconfigured was the same day (same year) my partner moved to her new apartment, leaving her then-husband. We celebrate both those events quietly together, because both of them enabled us to be so happily together.
For me, SRS was huge - something I thought would never happen for me. I like to mark the date. :icon_dance:
- Kate
Mine is April 15th. I have an unusual ritual for it.
The first thing I do with the day is accomplish anything I've been putting off. Any appointments or calls I have to make, any to-do lists, anything I have to mail. I face anything that's been nagging at me. It's the one day a year that I absolutely do not accept the word "no" in my reasoning -- unless it'll improve my life -- regardless of how many tricks my brain tries to play on me. Then, for the rest of the day, I do my best to feel good about myself and how far I've come along in general. It's really like a celebration of how important it is for me to fight for happiness in my life.
It'll be three years next April. It's kind of silly, but I really enjoy the custom I've developed for that time.
I don't know why but I find the term "->-bleeped-<-versary" incredibly offensive.
Yes, I was born transsexual, had medical treatment in 1974 that finally cured me of that condition but it was a serious condition that almost took my life so I find it hard to make light of it. Around the 15th of April each year I try to pause to be thankful for the life I have had, the life I wouldn't have had without the cure.
Quote from: Northern Jane on November 10, 2013, 03:52:52 AM
I don't know why but I find the term "->-bleeped-<-versary" incredibly offensive.
Yes, I was born transsexual, had medical treatment in 1974 that finally cured me of that condition but it was a serious condition that almost took my life so I find it hard to make light of it. Around the 15th of April each year I try to pause to be thankful for the life I have had, the life I wouldn't have had without the cure.
Jane, I completely agree with you. My official GD diagnosis was made in 2000. I've had a 13 year fight with the NHS U.K system which still continues today to just to get the help and support I need. When I think about it I think about all the heartache, depression and the continued stalling of my treatment that went on by so called GIC gender specialists. Why would I celebrate the worst nightmare I've been through for the last decade?
I do understand people with GD are treated with more respect in America by their medical profession but for me it was something I don't want to think about too often.
Quote from: Sybil on November 09, 2013, 11:30:44 PM
Mine is April 15th. I have an unusual ritual for it.
The first thing I do with the day is accomplish anything I've been putting off. Any appointments or calls I have to make, any to-do lists, anything I have to mail. I face anything that's been nagging at me. It's the one day a year that I absolutely do not accept the word "no" in my reasoning -- unless it'll improve my life -- regardless of how many tricks my brain tries to play on me. Then, for the rest of the day, I do my best to feel good about myself and how far I've come along in general. It's really like a celebration of how important it is for me to fight for happiness in my life.
It'll be three years next April. It's kind of silly, but I really enjoy the custom I've developed for that time.
I like this idea! Nothing seems more appropriate.